Re: Parsing of fontconfig font names and other font related stuff.

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Yavor Doganov skrev:
> Jan Djärv wrote:
>> I'm in the process of getting Emacs to use GConf defaults for font, 
>> antialiasing, hints and dpi.
> 
> Are you sure this is a good idea?  AFAIK there are plans to deprecate
> GConf for GNOME 3.0 next year, and replace it with dconf/GSettings.
> The precise plan is not clear yet, I think.

Well, if it isn't clear, we must work with what we have :-)
Yes I think it is a good idea.  As I said in my reply to Handa-san, the dpi 
values used by Emacs and other Gnome applications doesn't match, so Emacs 
looks different even if it uses the same font.

It would also be nice to have Emacs use the same hinting and antialiasing as 
other applications.  We get a free GUI for setting these things (Gnome desktop 
preferences).  It is somewhat cumbersome to set these in Emacs now.

If the infrastructure to set these values from desktop preferences are in 
place it is easy to change the actual means of getting the values, be it 
GConf, dconf or whatever.

It is not like the whole world will switch to Gnome 3.0 the second it is 
released.  But if there will be a new Emacs release that isn't just bug fixes 
before Gnome 3.0 is another matter :-).

> 
> GConf is also not used in other GTK+ based desktops like Xfce/LXDE and
> of course anything that's not GNOME.

Nor does KDE.  Gnome is the GNU desktop after all.  It will fallback to not 
using GConf if it isn't present.

	Jan D.