The current app-vim/airline-0.4.ebuild doesn't install the powerline symbols as described here: https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation/linux.html#fontconfig and here: https://github.com/bling/vim-airline/#integrating-with-powerline-fonts What the ebuild should do: - download PowerlineSymbols.otf and 10-powerline-symbols.conf - use the 'font' eclass to install the OTF and fontconfig file I don't know whether it makes sense/is possible using font.eclass to enable 10-powerline-symbols.conf by default. See also: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fontconfig
A patch would help speed this up since I didn't feel like doing it in the initial release. Both methods (otf and patched fonts) would have to be used in order to support most terminals. Also, this should probably be done in a separate pkg since I'll probably add powerline to the tree at some point.
You're right. An extra ebuild providing the powerline symbols might make more sense in this case, as it can be shared between powerline and airline. Unfortunately, I don't have time right now to take care of this. WRT adding a powerline ebuild: I thought powerline is more or less dead? Is there an actively maintained fork around I haven't seen yet?
(In reply to Elias Probst from comment #2) > WRT adding a powerline ebuild: I thought powerline is more or less dead? Is > there an actively maintained fork around I haven't seen yet? The maintainer restarted the project using a more generic framework written in python [1]. [1]: https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline
Now in the tree as media-fonts/powerline-symbols. We may add the patched fonts at a later point.
