Subject: Re: UNIX FONT PATH
From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 14:42:09 CST
Hi Dom,
> out. I get an infinite stream of these messages and nasty dialogs. The
> dialog should be shown once, and abiword should still be usuable
> regardless of this situation.
The dialog is meant to be shown only once, and AW was meant to
be usable, but for some reason your old path that was retrieved
from the server is also invalid.
> NB. if i turn off MODIFYUNIXFONTPATH in AbiWord.profile,
things seem to
> work ok. Perhaps this could not be defaulted to true please.
No, this has to be false by default, it is equivalent to the the xset
+fp call in the wrapper script, without it AW could not find its fonts
pretty much anywhere except on RH that the user already tweaked.
> Please fix this sooner rather than later. That's 3x this week that Abi
> has been rendered completely unusable to its maintainer... I appreciate
> the work that's being done here and it's ultimately for a good cause.
As I do not run RH I can only try to simulate the problem, and it
worked fine under simulations of invalid path; it will ultimately take
someone with RH to debug this. The code is in
xap_UnixFontManager.cpp, and is entirely straight forward, and it
is probably some stupid oversight on my side that is causing this.
Unfortunately, I am heading overseas in a few hours and will not be
able to look at it at all before next Thursday.
It can always be turned off, the relevant code is in #if 1 construct,
and Martin knows what to do. Sorry I cannot be more help at the
moment.
Tomas
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