Where should the modular X11R7 fonts get installed to?

Mike A. Harris mharris at redhat.com
Fri Nov 11 05:49:45 UTC 2005


Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mercredi 09 novembre 2005 à 20:47 -0500, Mike A. Harris a écrit :
> 
> 
>>The "core fonts" system is for legacy X applications, in particular
>>applications that use the Xt, Xaw, and Motif toolkits, as well as other
>>legacy toolkits.
> 
> 
> And commercial JVMs.
> Making core font support optional would probably be enough for Sun to
> get a clue and port Java to fontconfig.

Things of this nature take a lot of time to transition.  While we
want that transition to happen, moving too fast can end up just
upsetting users and customers unreasonably, which would just make
Fedora and thus future RHEL releases less attractive to many
deployments.

Proper timing is key.




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