Re: [PATCH] gnu: icecat: Display IPA.

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Alírio Eyng <alirioeyng@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#FOOT1 doesn't work by default
>>
>> From 52762207ac1e5f9037506d30dd8b408acc764f92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: =?UTF-8?q?Al=C3=ADrio=20Eyng?= <alirioeyng@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 15:03:53 +0000
>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: icecat: Display IPA.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm (icecat)[propagated-inputs]: Add font-gnu-freefont-ttf.
>
> I think it should be up to the user to choose which fonts to install
> (there are other things that don’t display correctly by default.)

Agreed.


Alírio Eyng <alirioeyng@gmail.com> writes:

> "Our goal" ... "promotion and tight integration of GNU components"
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#GNU-Distribution),
> so we should use GNU FreeFont as default (with the technical benefit
> about IPA)

Our default set of fonts belongs, if anywhere, in the 'packages' field
of our example OS descriptions.

It does *not* belong in the 'propagated-inputs' of every graphical
program.  If we did that, we wouldn't just be making it the "default",
we would be making it *mandatory*.

> we are already installing fonts (non-GNU):
> find -L .guix-profile -name '*otf*'
> .guix-profile/lib/icecat-31.7.0/browser/extensions/spyblock@gnu.org/chrome/skin/fonts/CreteRound-Italic.otf
> .guix-profile/lib/icecat-31.7.0/browser/extensions/spyblock@gnu.org/chrome/skin/fonts/CreteRound-Regular.otf
> .guix-profile/lib/icecat-devel-31.7.0/bin/browser/extensions/spyblock@gnu.org/chrome/skin/fonts/CreteRound-Italic.otf
> .guix-profile/lib/icecat-devel-31.7.0/bin/browser/extensions/spyblock@gnu.org/chrome/skin/fonts/CreteRound-Regular.otf
> and more on the store

That font appears to be installed as part of the SpyBlock extension,
which is included by default in GNU IceCat.  If you want to complain
about that, the appropriate forum is <bug-gnuzilla@gnu.org>.  In any
case, it is not installed in a place where any other program is likely
to find it, and possibly not even outside of the SpyBlock extension.

      Mark