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Description
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This case removes the CDE Font Administration tools, which were introduced in
ASARC 1995/177, and declared EOF in the CDE EOF case (LSARC/2005/533).
For historical reasons, these tools live in the X Consolidation despite using
CDE Consolidation Private interfaces (via a contract in the original case).
The entire SUNWxwfa package will be removed, including the following commands:
/usr/dt/bin/sdtfontadm
/usr/dt/bin/sdtfontadd
/usr/dt/bin/sdtfontls
/usr/dt/bin/sdtfontrm
/usr/dt/bin/sdtfpadd
/usr/dt/bin/sdtfpls
/usr/dt/bin/sdtfprm
These commands interacted with the font system built into the X server,
which CDE and other X desktops originally used. The sdtfp{add,rm} commands
for manipulating the X server's font path only configured the now-Obsolete
Xsun server and were never updated to work with the Xorg server.
Modern X desktops, including GNOME and KDE mainly use the newer
fontconfig/Xft client-side font system, which is not affected by these
tools. GNOME provides its own font GUI's for that system.
Users of legacy applications that still use the old X font system will be
recommended to use the standard X command line tools - mkfontdir, mkfontscale,
and xset - to install fonts with their metadata files for the X server font
system and to add entries to the X server font path.
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