[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #10045: PM: Putting fonts in non-packaged/data/fonts does not seem to work
- From: "bonefish" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:40:10 -0000
#10045: PM: Putting fonts in non-packaged/data/fonts does not seem to work
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Reporter: stippi | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: - General | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by bonefish):
Replying to [comment:3 stippi]:
> I thought the idea is that /boot/common is merged from both the packages
and the contents of non-packaged.
No.
> B_COMMON_FONTS_DIRECTORY should still point to /boot/common/data/fonts.
It does.
> Why is there the need to have additional directories? Obviously that
would not only break our own applications. WonderBrush for example looks
in B_COMMON_FONTS_DIRECTORY and is still broken even when app_server is
fixed. It has its own font engine.
Yes, but the same is true for `B_COMMON_FONTS_DIRECTORY` and BeOS
applications, since /boot/common didn't exist back then. This is really a
design flaw -- or rather lacking feature -- of the `find_directory()`
functionality. There should really be a more abstract API that simply
allows you to iterate through e.g. all font directories without having to
enumerate them specifically.
> Doesn't that mean it is not transparent any more to applications, which
stuff stems from packages and which from non-packages?
Well, in the same way it isn't transparent which stuff stems from
/boot/system and which from /boot/common or /boot/config/home.
> How does it work for libraries? I thought a library could shadow a
packaged library by putting a version in home/config/non-packaged/lib,
which then appears in home/config/lib, shadowing any version from packages
in home/config/packages.
No, the shadowing happens at the runtime loader level. The path ~/config
/non-packaged/lib is simply listed before ~/config/lib in LIBRARY_PATH.
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