[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: N800 GUI Improvements from a Newton Developer's Perspective

[From: Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:53:51 +0200, Xan Lopez wrote:

> Very nice review. I mostly agree with all your points except the bit
> about font management. The N800 (and the 700) both use fontconfig,
> which is way better than the old X11 font model. If you drop a font
> with the unicode characters you need to $HOME/.fonts you'll be able to
> read CJK (for example) web sites immediately. Not an excuse to not
> ship a decent font in the first place, but the infrastructure is
> there.

Yeah, pity that it is obfuscated.

I'd prefer much:

XDG_CONFIG_HOME=~/config

fonts in ~/config/fonts (note: no dots)

Another thing to patch.......

And now if the file manager would just allow me to see /home/user/ ...

cheers,
  Danny