Date: 31 Mar 2003 13:33:32 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mozilla with Xft crashes a lot: FIX Message-ID: <1049135612.348.52.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <20030331132001.03546b01.ak03@gte.com> References: <20030331180419.GA18211@ork.gte.com> <20030331132001.03546b01.ak03@gte.com>
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--=-IWPYL5geoSJQOJjj2Vas Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 13:20, Alexander Kabaev wrote: > On 31 Mar 2003 13:14:36 -0500 > Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: >=20 > > Great! Thanks! Have you submitted this to Mozilla? If so, what is > > the bug ID? > >=20 > > Joe >=20 > No I did not. I thought I will give heads-up to our gnome@ people and > they'll figure out the best way to fix the bug. It's not like I know too > much about all this fontconfig/Xft/freetype combo and the patch I > prepared is is a quick and dirty solution. The better way to is to limit > fontconfig pattern to return only Xft-compatible fonts somehow, but I > would not know how and I have no time to figure that out :) This can be done using fonts.conf, but Mozilla should not crash if the user makes a mistake. Filing a bug with Mozilla would be a good thing.=20 You could list the websites that break, and show them your patch. That may inspire them to come up with a better solution. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-IWPYL5geoSJQOJjj2Vas Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+iIn8b2iPiv4Uz4cRAnP+AJ9qZorMtMYFz1Bocl8fkPBzOwYjrACeNJpK ZraEId6EmtbbN0KWjqyvtlI= =qAkr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-IWPYL5geoSJQOJjj2Vas--
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