[Libreoffice] [PATCH] Drop XLFD support from fontmanager

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Fri Jan 13 06:33:35 PST 2012


On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 01:42:03PM +0000, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 13:19 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > XLFD support was removed in commit 269f91c (#i110171) except for parsing
> > fonts.dir and fonts.alias. I don't think this makes much sense in
> > fontconfig era, and dropping it simplifies the font manager a bit (I
> > don't even think we use server fonts at all).
> 
> Excellent, I had noticed recently that we were switching on a
> "supportFontconfig" variable to show/hide a bunch of stuff in spadmin to
> handle installing fonts in a pre-fontconfig X based environment and
> removed a massive whack of stuff which is never enabled for use off
> that. I noticed some of that stuff in passing, good to see it gone too.

That patch was inspired by your recent cleanup work :)

Regards,
 Khaled


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