[bug#57963] [PATCH 0/1] Support user's fontconfig.

[Taiju HIGASHI <higashi@taiju.info>]

Taiju HIGASHI <higashi@taiju.info> writes:

> Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Am Sonntag, dem 25.09.2022 um 07:58 +0900 schrieb Taiju HIGASHI:
>>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>>>
>>> > Anyway, it does look like your v2 is the way to go, with the
>>> > obvious caveat that using it is tricky: one needs to know about
>>> > fontconfig’s config file format and about sxml.
>>> >
>>> > Maybe we can go with v2 for now (it provides a useful “escape
>>> > hatch”) but prepare for more conventional configuration bindings?
>>>
>>> By conventional configuration binding, do you mean adding something
>>> like home-fontconfig-configuration to provide a dedicated  fontconfig
>>> configuration?
>> I think Ludo means that we should provide the most useful options (like
>> the fontconfig dirs) as dedicated record fields, while leaving an
>> "extra-config" escape hatch, that can be used with SXML or a raw string
>> for stuff that's too complicated (my personal preference would still be
>> SXML over the raw string, but YMMV).
>
> I see.  For example,
>
> For example, would it be as follows?
>
> (service home-fontconfig-service-type
>   (home-fontconfig-configuration
>     (dir "~/.config/fontconfig/my-fonts1.conf"))
>   (extra-config
>     (list
>       "<dir>~/.config/fontconfig/my-fonts2.conf")))

It was wrong. The following is more correct.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(service home-fontconfig-service-type
  (home-fontconfig-configuration
    (dirs
      (list "~/.config/fontconfig/my-fonts1.conf"))
    (extra-config
      (list
        "<match>...</match>"))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thanks,
-- 
Taiju