Bug 277789

Summary:	Automatic font installation
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mart Raudsepp <leio>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	fonts, volkmar
Priority:	Lowest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://behdad.org/text/ http://behdad.org/download/Presentations/slippy/stateoftext_slides.pdf
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2009-07-14 10:20:51 UTC

This is a tracker for a long term goal feature of getting automatic font installation to Gentoo.

As from the slides in the URL, modified a bit for Gentoo use, this could go like this:

1. A tinderbox package manager hook detects font at pkg build or postinst time
2. Package gets tagged using fc-query(?)
3. PackageKit installs GTK+ module - could be some other minimal thing that just notifies user of what package needs to be installed to see all the fonts
4. GTK+ overrides Pango default fontmap
5. PackageKit receives font install request
6. Installed fonts are picked up

For 2), another option could be to record it in metadata.xml (would involve DTD changes, perhaps a GLEP and dev consensus, but pretty straightforward) and have all developers have PM hooks that check for fonts in a package and complain if metadata.xml is outdated in regards to font information