[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 15670] New: Make it compatible with fontconfig?

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15670

            Bug ID: 15670
           Summary: Make it compatible with fontconfig?
    Classification: Xfce Core
           Product: Xfce4-settings
           Version: 4.13.6
          Hardware: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Medium
         Component: Appearance Settings
          Assignee: xfce-bugs at xfce.org
          Reporter: lists at tutanota.com
  Target Milestone: Xfce 4.14

This is Fedora 30 with Xfce 4.13

The fonts settings currently makes no difference for Firefox (and probably
Thunderbird) as the latter only obeys fontconfig settings.
Firefox here was terribly ugly with the default system settings (just
hintslight and nothing else). This was good in the sense that I finally learned
how to configure fonts (it was just a matter of linking the desired conf files
from the available ones - in Fedora from /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/ - to
etc/fonts/conf.d/).

But it was not only ugly, it was very uncomfortable to use and ideally this
definitely should be dealt by the DE settings. I suspect GNOME does that.
So, unless I'm mistaken, the appearance font settings probably should create a
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/conf.d/local.conf file or, in case the conf.avail
directory is always in the same place regardless of the OS, link the selected
conf files to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/conf.d

If this is ever implemented, then maybe also add the lcd filters option.

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