[Fontconfig] Sigh. What to do about per-user fonts...

Patrick Lam plam at MIT.EDU
Thu Apr 27 18:27:11 PDT 2006


Keith Packard wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 17:44 -0700, Patrick Lam wrote:
> 
>> I knew we forgot a case...
> 
> Yeah, I figured we'd left something out.
> 
>> Is that what you're worried about?  Well, if we had ~/.fonts/cache that
>> ought to take care of the above situation...
> 
> Ah, nm, the solution is obvious -- have the dir scanning code skip the
> cache directory. Either by comparing path names, or by sticking a magic
> marker file in the cache directory. Don't care which.
> 
> I'll see if I can't code something up this evening.

Right.  That works best when you don't stick cache files in ~/.fonts
directly, of course.

pat



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