[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#884592: Bug#884592: fonts-fantasque-sans: variants use the same name, making them unusable in most programs

[Adam Borowski]

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 04:08:51PM +0530, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
> Adam Borowski <kilobyte at angband.pl> writes:
> > I'd go with 3. encode variant in the "family" field.
> >
> > If you look at some other fonts (better visible in a GTK2 font picker rather
> > than in the GTK3 one), you can find variants usually presented as families,
> > such as "Comic Neue" vs "Comic Neue Angular".
> 
> So what should be new package names?. Tell me from below which sounds
> correct.
> 
> fonts-fantasque-noloopk-sans-ttf or fonts-fantasque-sans-noloopk-ttf
> 
> Basically fonts-fantasque-[variant]-sans-[type] or fonts-fantasque-sans-[variant]-[type]

That still wouldn't let the user pick one, unless you make the variants
conflict.

I'm talking about SetFontNames(), not package name.


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