Re: [RFC] target font model on Freedesktop systems

2019-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le mercredi 24 juillet 2019 à 14:37 +0200, Kevin Kofler a écrit : Hi, Kevin Thank you for taking the time to answer, > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > 2. fontconfig strives to hide all the legacy ways to designate > > different > > parts of this ideal font, and strives to expose a single "font" > > o

Re: [Fontconfig] [RFC] target font model on Freedesktop systems

2019-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2019-07-24 13:49, Akira TAGOH a écrit : Hi Akira On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 10:45 PM Nicolas Mailhot wrote: No foo variable, foo hebrew, foo narrow, foo caption, just a single foo with different available features (full variability or fixed states on the default axis, real upstream provided

Re: [RFC] target font model on Freedesktop systems

2019-07-24 Thread Kevin Kofler
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > 2. fontconfig strives to hide all the legacy ways to designate different > parts of this ideal font, and strives to expose a single "font" objet no > matter what quirks exist in individual font files. We stop exposing lots > of weird quirky bits right and left, that need ma

Re: [RFC] target font model on Freedesktop systems

2019-07-24 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Tuesday, 23 July 2019 at 15:45, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > Hi, > > Now that things are starting to move fonts-side[1], I’d like the various > actors to agree on a common font model target. [...] > Therefore, I’d like to propose that the target font model on freedesktop > systems, is the

[RFC] target font model on Freedesktop systems

2019-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Hi, Now that things are starting to move fonts-side[1], I’d like the various actors to agree on a common font model target. Without a a common target, we’ll end up working at odds with one another. Upstream font files can not serve as a an officious target. They are full of quirks, you end u