<div dir="ltr"><a class="gmail_plusreply" id="plusReplyChip-0">+Alex</a> </div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:49 PM Keith Packard <<a href="mailto:keithp@keithp.com">keithp@keithp.com</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Akira TAGOH <<a href="mailto:akira@tagoh.org" target="_blank">akira@tagoh.org</a>> writes: > Not rare today. this has been made to improve flatpaks startup time > because regenerating fontconfig caches always happened. I'd like to find a solution which doesn't involve writing files into the font directories themselves, but I'm having trouble thinking of how that might work without involving changes in the flatpaks themselves. All we really need is some way to compute the right cache file name given the path found inside the flatpak. Is the .fonts.conf file for the flatpak computed dynamically? Can we adjust how that is built? What if that file contained an association between the paths it uses and the paths used outside? We could then construct the external path from the internal path and use that to generate the right cache file name. Would we need more than one mapping per <dir> element in the font configuration? Alternatively, a flat-pak using system could place a magic file in each top-level font directory for fontconfig to use for this mapping. As that would simply contain the name of the directory in the external namespace, it would be easy to generate with a shell script even. At least we wouldn't be creating and destroying these files each time fc-cache runs, as we wouldn't need them in each new directory, only at the top of each font tree. -- -keith _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list <a href="mailto:Fontconfig@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">Fontconfig@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig</a> </blockquote></div> -- <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">behdad <a href="http://behdad.org/" target="_blank">http://behdad.org/</a></div>