Around 15 o''clock on Jul 25, Ciprian Popovici wrote:> Can I somehow provide a certain application a different ~/.fonts.conf? Short > of using a script that replaces it for that application only, that is. > If not, would it be a good idea? Say, have fontconfig check > ~/.fonts.conf.[windowname] before or after ~/.fonts.conf.Perhaps you could explain why you think this would be useful? In general, a uniform font presentation on the screen seems like a desirable user interface goal. -keith -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 228 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20040725/5076dff1/attachment.pgp
Can I somehow provide a certain application a different ~/.fonts.conf? Short of using a script that replaces it for that application only, that is. If not, would it be a good idea? Say, have fontconfig check ~/.fonts.conf.[windowname] before or after ~/.fonts.conf. -- Ciprian Popovici -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20040725/0baa7680/attachment.pgp
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 14:37:05 -0400 Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote:> > Around 15 o''clock on Jul 25, Ciprian Popovici wrote: > > > Can I somehow provide a certain application a different ~/.fonts.conf? > > Short of using a script that replaces it for that application only, that > > is. If not, would it be a good idea? Say, have fontconfig check > > ~/.fonts.conf.[windowname] before or after ~/.fonts.conf. > > Perhaps you could explain why you think this would be useful? In general, > a uniform font presentation on the screen seems like a desirable user > interface goal.It does, but sometimes to achieve that uniform presentation you have to deal with applications that misbehave. You may want to tackle such issues from fontconfig''s settings but you don''t want to apply them to the normal apps. Sure, it''s not fontconfig''s fault and the right thing to do would be to fix the broken application. But that''s not always possible or available soon enough. -- Ciprian Popovici -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20040726/ef5c9067/attachment.pgp