Bug 482696 – app-vim/airline-0.4 doesn't install the powerline symbols

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Elias Probst 2013-08-27 17:02:06 UTC]

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

[Comment 1 Tim Harder 2013-08-27 19:05:46 UTC]

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.

[Comment 2 Elias Probst 2013-08-28 14:52:57 UTC]

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?

[Comment 3 Tim Harder 2013-08-29 17:28:35 UTC]

(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

[Comment 4 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) 2015-02-24 16:41:27 UTC]

Now in the tree as media-fonts/powerline-symbols. We may add the patched fonts at a later point.