--Simone Sent from my phone! On Jul 15, 2012 10:42 PM, "Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mail...@laposte.net> wrote:
> Hi, > > I've just pushed new Droid font packages to Fedora Rawhide. > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=330644 > > Droid are complex font families with a difficult upstream and the > following caveats apply: > > A. I used a few hundred MiBs of Android git checkout as source. The fonts > are also available in the Google font directory but it does not permit > convenient checkout (one either needs to collect download URLs > file-by-file, or perform a full-repository multi-gig mercurial checkout), > its relationship with android as upstream is unclear, and it has been > known to cut-down fonts to limit their weight when used in CSS files. As > for other web sites, they are generally more convenient, but their > upstream status is unclear, and they love to zap licensing terms to > “simplify” their users' lives (even in Google-sponsored sites). So I > concluded that what was good enough for Android was good enough for us. > > B. The fonts follow Keith Packard's “one font per script” ideal but I > seriously question if fontconfig as it exists today is ready to process > such an ideal. Expect to hit bugs in fontconfig or in apps with > approximative fontconfig calls (the first generation of this package > triggered a Chromium bug; Android uses its own font and font fallback tech > so those fonts are not heavily tested in a fontconfig environment). > Fedora fontconfig files for Droid are available here: > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=google-droid-fonts.git;a=tree > > C. I tried to dispatch the Arabic variants in the Latin family they were > designed to complement, but I may have misunderstood the design info > available online. > > D. Lots of new scripts here. i18n and l10n teams probably need to take a > look to decide it that changes font defaults for some locales, and if > compts changes are needed. > > E. If the package description does not correctly attribute the main > designers involved, please educate me and I'll correct it. > > F. I've zapped DroidSansFallbackFull DroidSansFallbackLegacy > DroidSansArabic DroidNaskh-Regular-SystemUI that seemed redundant. If they > provide something missing in the other files, please tell me what it is > and I'll fix the packages. > > And that's all for this notification. Needless to say for this level of > changes those packages will only be available in F18 after F18 QA and > won't ever be pushed to previous Fedora versions. > > Best regards, > > -- > Nicolas Mailhot > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
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