Re: bloatware

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Vadim Plessky wrote:

> On Tuesday 01 April 2003 12:35, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> |   Ar an 30ú lá de mí 3, scríobh Vadim Plessky :
> |   > |  That's trivial for you to fix.
> |   >
> |   > Again, I think that fix should go to right place.  Applications
> |   > requesting 'fixed' font should be fixed first - at least to such level
> |   > that those apps if I don't have fixed font installed.
> |
> |  The entire server crashes if you don't have the "fixed" font
> |  installed.
> 
> This is not normal, IMO.
> I would consider this a *serious* bug in X server implementation.
> (I haven't made any tests on my own for this, though, and trus to your 
> experience)

   It doesn't crash over here.  It just doesn't start, which
isn't the same thing.

The only solution is probably to build a fixed font into the server,
which some people might complain about (speaking of bloat).


			Mark.