Bug 426783

Summary:	Importing /usr/share/fonts by default
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	sankarshan <sankarshan.mukhopadhyay>
Component:	fontmatrix	Assignee:	Parag Nemade <pnemade>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description sankarshan 2007-12-26 09:23:17 UTC

Description of problem:

Currently fontmatrix expects the end user to import the /usr/share/fonts by
hand, it may be optimal to do that by default.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 

fontmatrix-0.3.0-3.r263.fc8


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install fontmatrix and open application
2. Manually need to import the /usr/share/fonts
3.
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

This is an RFE. Other font folders with custom fonts can be manually imported,
the default font folder should be automagically imported

Comment 1 Parag Nemade 2008-01-02 09:34:30 UTC

Progress on this bug =>
  I contacted upstream and upstream author is not willing to do this change with
fear that /usr/share/fonts are system fonts and end user should not play/edit
with it.
  Will going to discuss this on fontmatrix users mailing list.

Comment 2 sankarshan 2008-01-02 09:49:49 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)

>   I contacted upstream and upstream author is not willing to do this change with
> fear that /usr/share/fonts are system fonts and end user should not play/edit
> with it.

The other alternative is to default import/load ~/.fonts or whatever is the
standard and accepted font directory. Leaving the interface blank and then
expecting the user to import directories is good for a UseCase where there are
additional "user specific fonts" that are custom for that user. The logic
applied here is somewhat along the lines of having a Documents folder to save
"documents" to and which is predefined.

On the other hand, this is technically not a bug but a technicality and RFE. The
developer and you have the complete freedom to contradict and reject :)

Comment 3 Parag Nemade 2008-04-07 04:38:10 UTC

This RFE is now upstream.
Fixed in fontmatrix-0.4.0 in rawhide.

Comment 4 Parag Nemade 2008-04-07 04:39:00 UTC

will release F8 update by this weekend.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-04-07 05:30:11 UTC

fontmatrix-0.4.0-2.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2008-04-09 05:20:22 UTC

fontmatrix-0.4.0-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.