Locale Launcher [PSARC/2007/564 FastTrack timeout 10/08/2007]

[Suresh Chandrasekharan]

Thanks much. It's my mistake of carrying over an initial idea to use a 
script in the back end of locale launcher. We'll use mostly C code, and 
can use X(Get|Set)FontPath and the likes.

Suresh
>
> Not really - the "Font Path" tag could change with localization, and the
> path especially cannot be relied on to be a list of font servers or
> directories that directly contain fonts.   Xorg inherits the long-ago
> XFree86 extension of being able to append qualifiers such as ":unscaled",
> and the X11R7.3 release adds the ability to have a "catalog" directory
> that contains symlinks to other font paths [1].
>
> The Committed method of getting the current font path is 
> XGetFontPath(3X11).
>
> As far as I know, there has never been a public method of parsing the 
> font path, or determining what meaning is applied to the values it 
> contains.
>
> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-June/025744.html
>