> An updated patch is attached. I believe something happened to the attachment in my reply, either in transit or before sending. (I'm new to sending attachments with Gnus.) Hopefully this time will work better. -- Martin Marshall law@martinmarshall.com On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 12:54 PM Martin Marshall wrote: > Nicolas Goaziou writes: > > >> + (propagated-inputs (list font-awesome)) > > > > It seems the project requires Font Awesome 6, but Guix only provides > > version 4. Is it an issue? > > I don't think so. While the default value of the `pretty-speedbar-font' > user-setting is "Font Awesome 6 Free Solid", the setting is > customizable, and any icon font may be used with the package. > > Even with the default value of `pretty-speedbar-font' unchanged, my > system automatically uses the Font Awesome 4 fonts provided by Guix's > font-awesome package. > > > It may be worth considering updating font-awesome in Guix first, but > > I don't know what its freedom status is nowadays (as a data point, > > Parabola provides it, tho). > > There is a comment to its package definition stating this: > > ;; XXX The build scripts of version 5 are not freely licensed and > ;; so we have to stick with version 4 for now: > ;; > > The linked discussion from 2018 concluded with all participants agreeing > that distribution of version 5 or higher would violate the Gnu FSDG. > > I reviewed the Font Awesome GitHub Issues, and it seems they remain > unwilling to change the licensing terms for the build scripts, the matter > having been raised as late as March 2022. > > There is a fork of Font Awesome whose stated goals are "to continue > building the amazing resource in a fully free, libre and open-source > fashion" (https://github.com/ForkAwesome/Fork-Awesome). I haven't > used it though. > > >> + (description > >> + "Generate and implement appealing SVG icons for the Emacs > >> Speedbar. > > > > This is not a complete sentence. > > > > Could you send an updated patch? > > Thank you for this and the other feedback provided. > > I've rewritten the description along with the other suggested changes. > > An updated patch is attached. > > Warm regards, > > -- > Martin Marshall > law@martinmarshall.com >