On 2020-02-18 22:30:59, Samuel Henrique wrote: > Control: owner -1 ! > > On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 13:41, Jason Pleau <ja...@jpleau.ca> wrote: >> >> I pushed what I had here: https://gitlab.com/jpleau/polybar/ >> >> It's not targetting debian (simply because I'm using ubuntu these >> days). Feel free to take whatever you find useful > > Thanks for that Jason, I pushed the current state of the packaging to salsa. > > I will be doing the upload the the NEW queue soon, I just want to do some > extra checks and tests to confirm everything is ok.
I tried the package available here: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/polybar It works well! One unfortunate problem I have found, however, is that it requires the siji font to work in its default configuration. That font is not available in Debian right now (#894413) but worse, even if it would be, it's a bitmap font which requires enabling those across the board (`rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf`) which, in turns, means that bitmap fonts *will* be used everywhere. This is most notable when browsing GitHub in Firefox, as it will now decide to use "Helvetica" which is shipped by the xfonts-75dpi package (a dependency of xorg and task-desktop, of all things). This makes things generally horrible for me, and I don't think it's a reasonable expectation. Note that there is a truetype version of the font in https://github.com/fauno/siji/blob/master/ttf/siji.ttf ... but it doesn't display as well.. Also note that I previously mentioned the problems with that font in this bug report... a. -- The most prudent course for any society is to start from the assumption that the Internet should be fundamentally outside the domain of capital. - The Internet's Unholy Marriage to Capitalism
