Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Adding AppStream metainfo files for fonts
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2016-09-26 3:27 GMT+02:00 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 3:14 AM, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
>
>> In order to properly display fonts, they need to have an AppStream
>> metainfo file. Unfortunately, font upstreams do often not provide
>> those, especially since many font authors just create the font once
>> and then don't invest time in maintaining it.
>
> Can we just have appstream.d.o/debhelper/something autogenerate these?
Unfortunately not, because we have no idea about how to generate the
unique ID, how to write a proper summary sentence and especially we
don't know which fonts should be grouped together, if multiple exist
in one package.
>> You can find the specification for font metainfo files here:
>> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/sect-Metadata-Fonts.html
>
> This appears to be missing font names (as one would use them in
> CSS/etc) and language support, how does Fedora do that magical
> language to font matching for automatic font installation when
> visiting web pages?
Fedora simply doesn't do that, and using filenames was simply a
placeholder for now.
Do you have experience with fonts? We could make this tag a "<family>
<style>" combination, so we would have:
<font>Libertine Bold</font>
<font>Libertine Regular</font>
etc.
We could also make some kind of ID for the font ("libertine;bold") and
add it instead. The only important thing is that we have enough
information to associate that name with a font file.
Cheers,
Matthias
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