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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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