Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 12:23:47 -0500 From: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mozilla with Xft crashes a lot: FIX Message-ID: <20030402122347.4b6f8cd9.ak03@gte.com> In-Reply-To: <1049135612.348.52.camel@gyros> References: <20030331180419.GA18211@ork.gte.com> <1049134476.348.49.camel@gyros> <20030331132001.03546b01.ak03@gte.com> <1049135612.348.52.camel@gyros>
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On 31 Mar 2003 13:33:32 -0500 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > 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: > > > > > Great! Thanks! Have you submitted this to Mozilla? If so, what > > > is the bug ID? > > > > > > Joe > > > > 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. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is not a _mistake_. Mistake is to treat all fonts, returned by fontconfig pattern as Xft-copmpatible. -- Alexander Kabaev
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