Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 74952
ref-guide makes no mention of fonts.conf only xfs
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:47:02 EDT
The Red Hat 8 manual, Reference Guide, Fonts section, at: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/ref-guide/s1-x-fonts.html describes how to configure your fonts under Psyche, but fails to make any mention of /etc/fonts/fonts.conf !!! Gah! Bad!
"The creation of the fonts.dir file, as well as any other files used by xfs with these fonts, is beyond the scope of this document." Note: I take some issue with that statement as well. I think the scope of the document may need to be adjusted. I don't remember seeing this covered in any of the Redhat Install/Getting Started/Reference guides. At the very least there should be a link to an appropriate HOWTO.
I will investigate this issue and see about adding it to the next release. I am leaving this open until a final decision has been made. Thanks you so much for calling this to my attention. Johnray
Yes, the whole issue of the two font systems (xfs for legacy applications) and Xft/fontconfig (for gtk2-gnome2/qt3) needs to be addressed. Whether this belongs in the reference guide or the configuration guide is another good question. In addition, it might me a good idea to incorporate some or the font direction/strategy that Mike Harris put on the phsyche-list mailing list.
I'll search the mailing list archives for Mike's Posts. This has been added as a feature request for the next version of the Ref Guide, just so you know. Thanks a million for catching this. I'll close the bug once the content is actually written. Take care, Johnray
See also Bug 77705, which I filed against the CG requesting font config info....
K, so it's in the next release. I am closing this bug. Thank you so much for your help! Johnray