From: ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>
To: Tom Balzer <tbalzer@ksu.edu>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: LibreOffice Fonts
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 08:12:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170928081204.t3rigpdbaeptgpvp@abyayala> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ing320p6.fsf@ksu.edu>
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Tom Balzer transcribed 1.2K bytes:
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> ng0 writes:
>
> > I have a problem with making decision on default fonts. What if someone
> > doesn't want gnu-freetype-ttf? It is not just only this font, you can use
> > any font and sometimes this will depend on fc-cache -fv which is mentioned
> > in the documentation.
>
> By 'in the documentation', do you mean the documentation for how fonts
> work in guix, or libreoffice's documentation? If the latter, then yes I
> see that you could start libreoffice with a gtk theme definition
> to control the fonts, allowing for other font choices. But in the case
> where one just launched libre office, wouldn't you expect that it
> 'works' running out of just the package files? If you include no font
> that wouldn't work, which seems like sacrificing basic functionality in
> order to avoid including a font that someone might not desire.
>
> Couldn't that argument be made for any features above bare minimum for
> any application?
No, that's something entirely different from propagating fonts.
> For instance, someone might not want a support library
> for emacs that enables viewing jpegs, but the default package supports
> this. I think that removing a feature from a package definition if you
> don't want a feature makes more sense than crippling a package with
> non-sane defaults.
>
> Tom
>
I think you want to read past discussions on this still open problem:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26877
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18640
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-28 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-27 21:15 LibreOffice Fonts Tom Balzer
2017-09-27 22:41 ` ng0
2017-09-27 23:15 ` Tom Balzer
2017-09-28 8:12 ` ng0 [this message]
2017-10-02 14:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-02 15:05 ` ng0
2017-10-02 22:57 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-10-04 14:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
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