Feature changed by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) Feature #313035, revision 8 Title: Invent Consistent Font Naming Schema openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Thomas Schraitle (thomas-schraitle) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Currently, our package names for fonts are suboptimal. Here are some examples: farsifonts fonts-arabic freefont gnu-unifont indic-fonts intlfonts-ttf xorg-x11-fonts From a usability perspective, it would be better to make a consistent naming schema for font packages. Naming schemas from other distributions: * Ubuntu: prefix with "ttf-" * Fedora: suffix with "-fonts" With the above inconcistency, popular fonts like LinuxLibertine or dejavu cannot be found. Please document any decisions in the Package Guidelines regarding how to name our fonts correctly and consistently. Relations: - Package Guidelines (url: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines) - Old Wiki Page for Font Package Layout (url: http://old-en.opensuse.org/Packaging/Fonts_Policy#Package_layout_for_fonts) - Ubuntu Font Package List (url: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=natty§ion=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=ttf) - Fedora Font Package List (url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/list/*-fonts*?_csrf_token=b272157...) - 313037 (feature/duplicate: 313037) Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: The benefits: * Consistency: easier to find, easier to install * Usability: better to memorize and therefor easier to find * Migration: Users from other distributions find their fonts easier Discussion: #1: Michael Foerster (yamaban) (2011-12-01 00:22:29) A suffix *-font(s) would be a good start. Yes, that would include ALL fonts, but for the details (e.g: vector/woff/ttf/otf/t1/bitmap) there's also the description field. (see "zypper se" or http://software.opensuse.org/search) A prefix ttf- / otf- / t1- could be added or not, even at a later date. Maybe even gatter all fonts in a 'devel' repo, to give them a central home? + #2: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2011-12-01 00:31:14) + >Currently, our package names for fonts are suboptimal. Well, the + package name usually follows the upstream project name. >Ubuntu: prefix + with "ttf-" Hah, something only Ubuntu could have come up with. As if + everything was ttf. >Fedora: suffix with "-fonts" unifont-fonts sounds + kinda weird and redundant. + I would argue that is precisely what RPM groups are for. Search in the + System/X11/Fonts category and voilà. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313035