Summary: | x11-libs/xosd-2.2.14-r1: make font-misc-misc optional | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Cedric Sodhi <manday> |
Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Alex Alexander (RETIRED) <wired> |
Status: | RESOLVED NEEDINFO | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | https://sourceforge.net/projects/libxosd/files/ | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Cedric Sodhi
2011-01-08 15:43:55 UTC
*** Bug 351134 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** You're not quite correct here - xosd doesn't use fontconfig, but the old XLFD method, with a default of "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--*-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" That's media-fonts/font-misc-misc, unfortunately. Why, yes, it could use porting to at least libXft. (In reply to comment #2) > You're not quite correct here - xosd doesn't use fontconfig, but the old XLFD > method, with a default of "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--*-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" > > That's media-fonts/font-misc-misc, unfortunately. > Why, yes, it could use porting to at least libXft. > Yes, but even XLFD goes through X and hence there is no problem if "the default" is currently not available. I don't know what font in particular X will pick as a substitute but it sure finds one. I installed the program from source and - of course - it works perfectly fine without misc-misc fonts - although osd_cat might *prefer* a specific font. The problem is that there are cases when no font matches the pattern and xosd just silently fails - there's no default fallback here. I see. What about a "-failsafe" USE flag then or at least choose the smallest font package which still has a matching font in it instead of font-misc-misc which in turn depends on font-alias and is about 2M (I would find esp. the first option reasonable). Personally, I do agree to a point (a useflag would be nice), but I don't think this will get accepted. (In reply to comment #6) > Personally, I do agree to a point (a useflag would be nice), but I don't think > this will get accepted. > Accepted? By whom? The maintainer? Why would he not... The font dependency could be modified to be satisfied by another font if it exists. What font would you guys recommend/use that works with xosd? |