[Pkg-fonts-devel] Adding AppStream metainfo files for fonts

[Paul Wise]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 12:59 AM, Matthias Klumpp wrote:

> 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.

Hmm, I see.

> Fedora simply doesn't do that, and using filenames was simply a
> placeholder for now.

When did they stop doing this? They used to have fully automatic
metadata extraction and automatic installation of fonts simply based
on characters in a web page.

> 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.

fontconfig is the way to associate font metadata like names or
languages with the font filenames. I don't think we should reinvent
that wheel.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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