FS#6409 - Adding KDE system wide fonts does not work

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dale Ogilvie (dale77) - Monday, 12 February 2007, 23:39 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

In KDE 3.5.6 Control Center, Font Installer, if I use administrator mode to add "system-wide" fonts, the fonts are added but never recognized. I can add personal fonts (in ~/.fonts) using control center no problem, and they are picked up after I relogin.

I wonder whether the problem is that KDE installs these fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts?? The ttf files for the fonts are copied to that location.

Possibly KDE has a configure setting that will move the system fon directory to usr/share/fonts.
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 23:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 08:55 GMT
well for installing fonts please take a look at our font packages how to install them with pacman, its much better to use a pkg.tar.gz then a crappy kde tool that was not designed for arch
Comment by Dale Ogilvie (dale77) - Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 03:41 GMT
Hi Tobias,

I have installed the dejavu & ms ttf packages, but I need a non-standard Greek font from my windows dual boot. I don't think you have a package for that. ;-) I did a bit of poking around and found a file /etc/fonts/conf.d/00kde. This file contains a reference to the kde /usr/local/share/fonts directory, so it looks like someone is *trying* to make it work for kde. The conf.d directory is listed as an include in fonts.conf...

Thanks

Dale
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 23:01 GMT
if you install fonts to a directory which xorg doesn't know about they cannot be found

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