Feature changed by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) Feature #313037, revision 5 Title: central font repository openSUSE Distribution: Duplicate of #313035 Master status: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Kim Leyendecker (openlhag) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: http://lists.suse.de/opensuse-packaging/2011-11/msg00126.html Hi, over the years, I've collected a bunch of great fonts in my home repository. However, it seems we don't have a consistent naming schema for fonts. Although the Packaging Guidelines[1] links to the old Wiki[2], the information therein is printed in red and I'm not sure how useful is this nowadays. This has some interesting effects. If you search for fonts like this: # zypper se font you will get _some_ but not all. For example, the popular Linux Libertine and DejaVu fonts are not listed. A user has to _know_ the name. IMHO this is not very intuitive and userfriendly. On the other side, we have lots of fonts which are very inconsistently named. Here are some examples: farsifonts fonts-arabic freefont gnu-unifont indic-fonts intlfonts-ttf xorg-x11-fonts From a usability perspective, it would be very convenient to have a consistent naming schema with a specific prefix (or suffix), for example a "- fonts" suffix. Ubuntu has the prefix "ttf-" for their packages: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=natty§ion=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=ttf Fedora has the suffix "-fonts" for their packages: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/list/*-fonts*?_csrf_token=b272157... Another issue: Do we have a special repository dedicated only to fonts? I couldn't find any... Do you think this is useful? What do you think? -------- [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines [2] http://old-en.opensuse.org/Packaging/Fonts_Policy#Package_layout_for_fonts -- GruÃ/Regards, Thomas Schraitle ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH (o< Maxfeldstrasse 5 /\\ Documentation Specialist 90409 Nuernberg, Germany _\_v http://www.suse.com http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/thomas-schraitle/ SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Relations: - feature/duplicate: 313035 Discussion: #1: Michael Foerster (yamaban) (2011-12-01 00:09:04) Thanks for bringing this up! - A naming convention of *-font(s) for the font-packages would be a good first step. - A dedicated repo (please noarch if if possible) would make the things easier for the not in depth informed I'm-just-a-user fraction. With a little for-thought and thinking ahead (read: guidelines) this repo could even be mainly free of Distro-Release depended stuff. (A font that works in openSUSE release 10.0 still works in release 12.x) - An added thought: what do we do with font related stuff that's no font itself? (Font-Editors, font-config, font-rendering-libs) + #2: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2011-12-01 00:34:49) + Fonts are not as spread out as you think. Nearly all font packages are + currently in the M17N project, with only a few exceptions (e.g. xorg- + x11-fonts, which is under X11:XOrg). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313037