Fontconfig warning

[Shimapan]

I've been noticing that now, in Quantal, I'm frequently getting the following message in Synaptic's terminal window:

Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.

Looking up line 9 in 50-user.conf, it's the following line:

<include ignore_missing="yes" deprecated="yes">~/.fonts.conf</include>

Should I just remove the offending line?

[Snowhog]

Just ignore the warning. After all, it is just that, a warning. It does no harm.

[OneLine]

Fontconfig

Fontconfig:
- http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig
and
- man fonts-conf

The warnig & fixes: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp...ontconfig/4262

...I'd obsolete reading $HOME/.fonts.conf in the future. I have no idea to notice the
transition without it...

...I think just moving those files may be a cleaner/intended solution than
editing the default config files which are distributed with every new
version of fontconfig.

So just move your config from the deprecated location to the new xdg
location...

Trying with the Kubuntu 12.10 beta

At here:

:~$ locate ~/.fonts.conf
/home/oneline/.fonts.conf

When starting some applications (muon) from the cli:

:~$ muon
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.

Making a directory:

mkdir -p /home/oneline/.config/fontconfig/

Moving the ~/.fonts.conf:

mv ~/.fonts.conf   ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

Starting the muon again:

:~$ muon
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.

Of course you could use the file manager to make the ~/.config/fontconfig/ and move/rename the ~/.fonts.conf -> ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts-conf .

[Shimapan]

Ok, I've moved the .fonts.config to the new location now and removed the dot at the beginning to make it visible.