<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jb@videolan.org">jb@videolan.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 11:10:57PM +0200, Jakob Leben wrote :<br>
<div class="im">> I see in current git that fontconfig is disabled by default.<br>
> Now (on Linux) whatever font is select in Qt preferences, it won't get<br>
> loaded (freetype error: "failed to load font file %s...").<br>
> I see the font file is simply equated to font family, as HAVE_STYLES is not<br>
> defined, and thus fails to load. If I change code to force full path to a<br>
> specific font file on my system, it works.<br>
<br>
</div>Then use fontconfig, on Linux.<br>
If you don't, you must use full path, of course...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>...if only GUI allowed the latter.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> I also see comments on bug tracker suggesting that fontconfig is not used<br>
> from 1.2 on, so I was wondering if my issue is indeed a bug and if a fix is<br>
> planned?<br>
<br>
</div>You shall read better the bug tracker comments, I think...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>See your own comment here: <a href="https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/4401">https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/4401</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>So, if fontconfig is disabled by default, I would expect a straightforward way to specify the full font file path, like via GUI preferences...</div></div>