I'm sure that adding a new extension to the X client/server protocol is not trivial, however I believe there are several areas where this would indeed be useful. As I understand getting fonts from a font server is best handled with the X server acting as a client, so this extension would not likely be well suited to replacing any existing functionality. However it would solve a handful of other X related problems and case some(read as less) new problems. 1. Application availability of fonts, browsers/PDFs and wine. Allowing clients to offer a font server should solve most of these problems. 2. Areas where clients need a concise set of fonts, Xmove/DMX like applications. Allowing clients to fetch fonts from the server could offer a much broader set of usage cases, like a alternative xfs that is little more then an X client.
Currently xset is able to alter fp and add a remote font server, however this can be difficult to setup in cases where ssh or port forwarding is used. Applications should need to make use of xset's ability to alter the path in order to add *this client* to maintain security. _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
