Hi, thanks Takashi for your answers. On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:19:53 +0100 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
At Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:55:14 +0100, [...]
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.
True. (Though, this reminds me whether any possibility to search for RPM group...)
Yes, that would be another possibility. However, I doubt this option would be taken into account very often. ;)
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Note that ttf- and -fonts aren't identical. For example, gnu-unifont definitely can't be renamed as ttf-gnu-unifont.
Probably, but see below. First of all, I don't want mess up things, it's just one thing that I've stumpled upon---and I think, we can do better. I would appreciate it if we could make it more consistent, but I know there might be some technical issues (dependency problems, ...) that prevents from doing so.
If we group only "fonts", then -fonts suffix might make more sense. But, this doesn't mean it's better than giving ttf- prefix. It'll match with older bitmap fonts that user doesn't always want.
If I search for "ttf-" the only fonts that I got are these: ttf-arphic ttf-arphic-bkai00mp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-caslon ttf-wqy-zenhei Neither of the previous is a bitmap font, I guess.
And, adding -fonts to a package like gun-unifont would be strange. gnu-unifont-fonts? In most cases, prefixing would be better IMO.
Fedora uses this name: gnu-free-fonts (if this package contains the same fonts). Well, apart from the previous details, I see the following questions: 1. Do we really want to rename fonts? If yes, maybe we could use the "Provides" keyword in the spec file to hold the old name? 2. Should we use the Fedora or Ubuntu way? 3. Is it anywhere documented? 4. Probably it is useful to open a FATE request?
So, we need to make clear: - whether we group all fonts or only specific types (ttf, bitmap, etc); if we name for ttf, what we should do for otf?
It seems neither Fedora nor Ubuntu distinguish OTF and TTF, so why should we? It make sense for bitmap vs. vector.
- whether to give a prefix or a suffix
I don't have any preferences, either way is as long it is consistent. :-)
Another issue: Do we have a special repository dedicated only to fonts? I couldn't find any... Do you think this is useful?
Until now, fonts packages are put in M17N project in general. Moving around would be OK, but we need the proper notification.
Ok. I just looked from the usability perspective when someone wants to incorporate a repository with fonts. Where should he get it from? What's the URL? etc. It was just an idea, if there technical issues than I'm totally fine with the M17N repo. :) Thanks! -- Gruß/Regards, Thomas Schraitle ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH (o< Maxfeldstrasse 5 /\\ Documentation Specialist 90409 Nuernberg, Germany _\_v http://www.suse.com | HRB 21284 SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org