Re: gnustep-resources (Was: Re: Problem with libart backend)

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Saturday, October 26, 2002, at 11:27  am, Stefan Urbanek wrote:

> On 2002-10-25 20:28:35 +0200 Jeff Teunissen <deek@d2dc.net> wrote:
>
> > Charles Philip Chan wrote:
> > > I am in the process of trying out the libart backend, but I can't 
> > > seem
> > > to get it working. It keeps telling me that it can't find any fonts
> > > although I do have gdkxft installed and configured. I am using the 
> > > cvs
> > > version of GNUstep. Do I need to put anything special with my 
> > > defaults
> > > file to get it working? Any help will be appreciated.
> > back-art doesn't use GDK, or Xft.
> > back-art loads font packages, located in */Library/Fonts. You can get 
> > more
> > information from <http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/nfont%20packages>.
>
> To prevent such problems with new users and fonts, would it be 
> possible to include them somewhere with the gnustep core packages?
> Like proposed before: gnustep-gui-resources package containing fonts, 
> color lists, images, sounds and other gui stuff. (Package contraining 
> System/Library/*)
>
> What do you think?

I think the font packages are used only by the back-art package ... so 
they should
not be in the gui resources.  It might make sense to include some basic 
fonts with
back-art though (and improve the warning message about fonts).