100572 - integrate font control with system font controls (Xft)

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

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Mozilla needs to respond appropiately to system wide user font setting.

Comment 1

[Frank Tang]

please provide more information about so called "system wide user font setting". 

Comment 2

[Stuart Ballard]

bstell is referring to the xft configuration file, /etc/X11/XftConfig (stored in
/usr/lib/X11 on some other systems, I believe). This file details font name
matching (is that the right term?) and controls if and when antialiasing should
be applied to Xft fonts.

http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/render/ has more information, although it's not
in the form of actual documentation. I don't know whether any real docs actually
exist. The mailinglist is archived at http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/render/.

Hope this clarifies what this bug (spun off from bug 100570 by the way - that's
not mentioned in the summary or description so far) refers to.

Comment 3

[kill this account]

Whatever gets done needs to work on (or at least not conflict) with all
Unix systems that Mozilla supports.

Comment 4

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--> ftang

Comment 5

[Frank Tang]

bulk move NEW FUTURE bug to ASSIGN

Comment 6

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blizzard: this would be a good issue to look at to begin the integration of
FontConfig with mozilla

Comment 7

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Using fontconfig is the way to go here, for sure.  By default, font queries will
pick up all the right aliases from fonts.conf and use them.  Using fontconfig is
enough to achieve the desired result.  The trick is to make sure that the prefs
that we use will also use the correct fonts.

Comment 8

[André Dahlqvist]

Now that xft is integrated into Mozilla, does Mozilla also make use of
fontconfig in the way this bug describes?

Comment 9

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Nope.  We can consider this fixed. 

Comment 10

[André Dahlqvist]

Marking WORKSFORME, I hope that is an acceptable resolution.

Comment 11

[Yuying Long]

Mark as verified as worksforme per previous two comments.