New KDE system fonts unrecognized

Hello,
In KDE 3.5.6 Control Center, Font Installer, if I use administrator mode to add "system-wide" fonts, the fonts are added but never recognised. I can add personal fonts (in ~/.fonts) using control center no problem, and they are picked up after I relogin.
I wonder whether the problem is that KDE installs these fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts?? The ttf files for the fonts have been copied...
How do I get KDE to recognise these fonts "system-wide"?
Thanks
Dale

I have investigated a bit and found a solution, but its not very clean and also needs a patch for KDEbase...
At first, apply this patch to kdebase:
diff -u --recursive --new-file kdebase-3.5.6.orig/kcontrol/kfontinst/kio/KioFonts.cpp kdebase-3.5.6/kcontrol/kfontinst/kio/KioFonts.cpp
--- kdebase-3.5.6.orig/kcontrol/kfontinst/kio/KioFonts.cpp 2006-05-22 20:12:36.000000000 +0200
+++ kdebase-3.5.6/kcontrol/kfontinst/kio/KioFonts.cpp 2007-02-28 12:38:18.000000000 +0100
@@ -767,8 +767,8 @@
itsFolders[FOLDER_USER].location=dir;
- QString sysDefault("/usr/local/share/fonts/"),
- sysDir(getFontFolder(sysDefault, "/usr/local/share/", dirs));
+ QString sysDefault("/usr/share/fonts/"),
+ sysDir(getFontFolder(sysDefault, "/usr/share/", dirs));
if(sysDir.isEmpty())
It changes the dir for font installation to /usr/share/fonts...
To make it work, you also have to issue a "sudo mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts" ... I did it after installing a font with the patched font installer. Without issuing mkfontdir after installing a font, the font was not visible in my apps...
You must also add FontPath "/usr/share/fonts" to your xrog.conf
Well, it seems that the KDE font installer is badly broken (??) because there is no way to make it recognize the subfolders in /usr/share/fonts... The patch could be modified to point to /usr/share/fonts/TTF for example, but then you can only install TTF fonts with it...
I think its always better to install prepackaged fonts with pacman or just install them to your ~/.fonts with kfontinst...
Well, i simply have no experience with installing fonts or their defaults or whatnot, so dont blame me for that "solution", i know its cheap

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