[Fontconfig] Font cache simplification

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Tue May 30 07:20:28 PDT 2006


Albert Chin wrote:
> Wouldn't it make more sense to point your global fonts.conf at a
> directory containing fonts from all architectures/OS versions they log
> in to? Then, ~/.fonts.cache without <hostname> would be sufficient.
> Moreover, the font output should be consistent across all platforms.

Sadly, many fonts are still commercially licensed, so copying them off
the systems they are licensed for may not be legal.   The ones that are
freely copyable are probably already copied to all the systems.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering


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