Mozilla with Xft crashes a lot: FIX

[Alexander Kabaev]

On 31 Mar 2003 13:33:32 -0500
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 13:20, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> > On 31 Mar 2003 13:14:36 -0500
> > Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Great!  Thanks!  Have you submitted this to Mozilla?  If so, what
> > > is the bug ID?
> > > 
> > > Joe
> > 
> > No I did not. I thought I will give heads-up to our gnome@ people
> > and they'll figure out the best way to fix the bug. It's not like I
> > know too much about all this fontconfig/Xft/freetype combo and the
> > patch I prepared is is a quick and dirty solution. The better way to
> > is to limit fontconfig pattern to return only Xft-compatible fonts
> > somehow, but I would not know how and I have no time to figure that
> > out :)
> 
> This can be done using fonts.conf, but Mozilla should not crash if the
> user makes a mistake.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is not a _mistake_. Mistake is to treat
all fonts, returned by fontconfig pattern as Xft-copmpatible. 

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Alexander Kabaev