Hi Simon, Thanks for looking into these bugreports!
On 4/17/06, Simon Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, I'm confused: On both stable and unstable installations here, libgd > seems to have a dependency on libpng12. Furthermore, nothing seems to be > using libXft, running lsof over a running slimserver process shows > libfreetype and libfontconfig, no libXft. > > Are you sure that your libgd installation isn't "strange"? I tried to reproduce this problem and noticed that the problem was due to the fact that I hada a GD-files from the original Slimserver package lying around. The GD.so as distributed in the slimserver tarball does *not* have the dependency info right, but the Debian GD.so does have it correct. So, this is my fault. Sorry about the noise. > > Another issue I'm wondering about: I have some music with Chinese > > titles in it. To get the titles displayed, I switched to the > > arphic/ukai.ttf font. However, AFAIK, there is no single font that > > covers all the Unicode glyphs, so perhaps SlimServer needs to be > > extended to support multiple Unicode fonts and to use the appropriate > > font for any given code. Firefox seems to do this nicely, but I have > > no idea what logic they use to pick which font (e.g., ukai.ttf does > > have English characters but they're ugly so you wouldn't want to use > > that font for anything other than the Chinese characters). > > This way out of my pay grade, I'm afraid. I can push it into upstream > Bugzilla if you like (I've done that with the patches you supplied, as > well as applying them in Debian) but it might be better if you did so > yourself; the better to answer the inevitable queries. > > http://bugs.slimdevices.com/ Can you forward the report and then sets me as the "Reply-to" contact? Thanks, --david -- Mosberger Consulting LLC, http://www.mosberger-consulting.com/
