X in FC7

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le samedi 11 novembre 2006 à 10:22 +0100, Patrice Dumas a écrit :
> > 
> > That said, which apps care about core fonts these days?  Would it make 
> > sense to just build-in a fixed font or something and let everything 
> > else use fontconfig (as most decent apps do these days)?
> 
> Oldish decent apps use core fonts. Some apps in extras do and there are
> certainly more around that are interesting, especially in the scientific
> community where users are not interested in eye-candy.

Even there I bet they'd love something a little more i18n friendly than
core fonts

Anyway I pretty much don't care if we keep xfs or not, but I do hope we
get rid of the legacy backend that breaks every time an index file
slightly changes. Read the fonts at runtime without massaging à la
fontconfig. And pretend you're the old system to legacy apps where
people are still rationalising why they don't need to do fixing.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot