bug#26659: [contact.ng0@cryptolab.net: Re: fonts bug in icecat?]

[Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@openmailbox.org>]

Another report made by me which might be related to this issue:

I noticed that the copy of Inkscape that I installed through Guix
doesn't include the fonts that are provided by the foreign distro
(Trisquel 7) so far, although it does include the fonts that are inside
"$XDG_DATA_HOME/fonts" (and children).

What I did to work around the issue is this:

1. Install fontconfig through Guix.

2. Make the file "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/fonts.conf" with contents:

# Begin of file
<fontconfig>
        <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
        <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>
# End of file

3. Do:

$ fc-cache -rfv

The true issue seems to be, however, that the Guix recipe for fontconfig
seems to be providing the "system-wide" fonts.conf file, which confuses
some applications installed through Guix. Guix's fontconfig system-wide
fontconfig configurations are found at ".guix-profile/fonts" (and
children).

However, this doesn't seem to affect software installed through other
means like the foreign distro's package manager, as I can see with the
copy of LibreOffice I have installed through Trisquel 7's default
repositories. I haven't tried installing "unique" fonts available
through Guix only, but I can see that all the foreign system's fonts are
recoginized by LibreOffice (according to my tests).

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