On 22 February 2015 at 03:43, Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: > To anyone within Gentoo who is interested in fonts > > I would like to announce a meeting to be held in #gentoo-meetings on > Freenode, on Friday February 27 at 06:00 UTC, unless another date > and/or time will be suggested by people who want to attend.
Since nobody actually showed up, here is what I've decided and am proposing: 1. lu_zero, matsuu, pva: do you still want to be members of the Fonts project? Then add yourselves to the new project page: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Fonts 2. Since aballier voted for me, and there were no other nominations, we default to me becoming the lead. 3. Handling of fonts with both truetype and opentype variants, as brought up in https://bugs.gentoo.org/406301#c8 Since OpenType is an extension of TrueType, and superior for desktop and printing use, I propose that we prefer installing just OpenType. But this should be user configurable, so in those cases I propose we do: IUSE="+opentype" if use opentype; then FONT_SUFFIX="otf" else FONT_SUFFIX="ttf" fi 4. Project member should have a look at font bugs. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=media-fonts has a lot of low hanging fruit: version bumps, dead homepages, etc. Also some good new packages. 5. Some fonts have webfont variants (WOFF is the important one here). This may be useful for users doing web development. What are your thoughts on installing those (conditionally, toggled by useflag)? Anything else you want to discuss? -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer
