[Fontconfig-bugs] [Bug 69946] New: Do not ignore missing default conf.d

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69946

          Priority: medium
            Bug ID: 69946
          Assignee: fontconfig-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
           Summary: Do not ignore missing default conf.d
        QA Contact: freedesktop at behdad.org
          Severity: trivial
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: All
          Reporter: jehan at zemarmot.net
          Hardware: All
            Status: NEW
           Version: unspecified
         Component: conf
           Product: fontconfig

Hi,

This is a follow-up of bug 69836. A very very minor improvement. Basically I
think that the conf.d/ default configuration folder should not be ignored if
missing in the default setup.

We had various font-related bugs on the released GIMP 2.8.6 for Windows,
because the conf.d was not found, and it was hard to diagnose because not much
feedback from fontconfig. The configuration issue has now been fixed with bug
69836 (thanks for that!), but if another similar configuration issue was to
arise again, it would be nice to have default feedback.

I understand that the configuration files can be considered an "optional" thing
for some advanced users, and these users would likely not use, or have their
own files. But for these *advanced* users, they would modify on purpose the
fonts.conf file anyway. On the other hand the very basic user, which just
install fontconfig, does not touch much, if at all the fonts.conf, and expects
it to work like it always did, this one expects the conf.d/ configuration
directory to exist. For this user, I would say that the conf.d/ folder and its
contents is not considered an optional thing at all, but a major feature (for
instance in GIMP, the default conf.d allows to simulate bold/italic typefaces
for fonts which don't have these features by default, and users were
considering that GIMP was bugged on Windows because of this issue:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708110).

This is why I propose this small patch to use ignore-missing="no". Because when
such a configuration issue, the "default" fonts.conf should warn the user there
is an issue.

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