Opened 7 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#8621 closed enhancement (fixed)

Deprecate Xorg bitmap fonts.

Reported by: ken@… Owned by: ken@…
Priority: normal Milestone: 8.0
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
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Description

As I suggested on the list, move a minimal bitmap font to a separate page (now called legacy), along with old libXfont and bdftopcf. One the Xorg fonts page reduce the fonts to only TTF and Type1. And change Xorg-7.7 to Xorg-7 in page titles.

In the book, tigervnc will require the legacy packages because it still uses an old xorg-server, and xscreensaver can benefit from the 100dpi fonts (while checking on a wording change, I came upon an old doc from 2002 recommending 100dpi fonts for screens >= 1024x768, so I guess the 75dpi really are redundant.

It is my understanding that none of the packages on the fonts page are now required by other packages in the book provided a TTF/OTF monotype font is installed for xterm and other TTF/OTF fonts for other desktop packages.

Following comments from akiezher I have reinstated the Adobe Utopia Type1 font which had fallen out, and reworded the text at the start of the Xorg legacy page.

But I have no wish to spend time bike-shedding on -dev about the wording (it can be changed at any time), nor about whether we should keep the full set of ugly bitmap fonts on the legacy page.

Revised versions of both books at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/deprecate-bitmap-fonts/

So, a simple question : Do, or Not do ?

Change History (7)

comment:1 by Armin K, 7 years ago

Just my few cents.

I haven't installed a single package from xorg fonts in quite some time, and haven't noticed a single issue. For the record, these are the font packages I have installed on my system:

https://github.com/elkrejzi/system-management/blob/master/buildscripts/buildfonts

As for tigervnc, there's a patch upstream which will allow tigervnc to be built in combination with xserver-1.19 tarball.

comment:2 by ken@…, 7 years ago

Unless anybody comes up with an objection, I'm minded to just do this and stop asking for opinions ;-)

For tigervnc I guess I'll leave it needing the legacy fonts until they release.

comment:3 by bdubbs@…, 7 years ago

Sounds good to me.

comment:4 by Douglas R. Reno, 7 years ago

Sounds good to me. I originally had some objections, but I will retract them. I can be a little bit too clingy to certain things. Even though it'll require a full rewrite of my script for that section, I'm fine with it. :-)

comment:5 by ken@…, 7 years ago

Owner: changed from blfs-book@… to ken@…
Status: newassigned

comment:6 by ken@…, 7 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Done at r18058.

comment:7 by bdubbs@…, 7 years ago

Milestone: 7.118.0

Milestone renamed

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