[5149] in testers
Re: fontmap2 missing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat May 4 09:22:22 2002
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 09:22:19 -0400
Message-Id: <200205041322.JAA19955@error-messages.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
CC: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <200204242207.SAA11885@dit.mit.edu>
> So I'd be much obliged if you can put it in the release- will you be
> able to do Sun too?
It looks like more work would be required to be able to create a
default.fontmap for Solaris. When I try to run gnome-font-installer
there, it doesn't find any fonts it likes on the system, partly
because software like ghostscript and groff aren't installed, and
partly because it assumes a Debian-ish directory layout for software
which does exist on the system.
This is all kind of irritating. In our environment, at least, GNOME
applications shouldn't have to worry about a bunch of font crud in
order to print; we have Postscript printers with a perfectly good
collection of fonts. But gnome-print still wants to try to find some
multifarious collection of fonts (from ghostscript, X11R6, groff, tex,
and other package) for the sake of printers we don't care about.
So what we really want is a way to convince gnome-print to stop
worrying so much about fonts, so that you don't see the kind of error
you're seeing with gnumeric. I don't think I have time for that level
of work; maybe someone else on the team does, or we can find some
contractor time for it.
In the mean time, I'll make gnome-font-install run on Linux only (via
the spec file).
