Hi,
For the most part for lack of spare time midterm I’ll do some bits here
and there as well as Qt Wayland stuff.
However, one thing I am currently reworking is the Font Management
(kfontinst) KCM. It’s entirely based around Xft and there is no way we
could really salvage this into a Wayland world. It only works under
Wayland right now because I made it open its own X connection to XWayland…
Therefore, I am working on plasma-fontmanagement (move it into its own
selfcontained repo, too) to give it a fresh new QML UI taking
inspiration from various font management apps and websites. I also want
to be able to expose some of the more modern font features (e.g.
variable axes)
Of course there’s much more than just the KCM: the font thumbnailer, the
KIO worker (that I don’t know we really need), the preview app (it’s a
KPart, too), the installer (click a font file to install it), so it will
probably not be 6.1 material entirely :-)
My goal is to get as far as possible with rendering through Qt’s font
engine (which has seen a lot of work in Qt 6.7), though the QML glyph
cache is abysmally slow compared to Qt 5 (as you can witness in the
Emojier, too, cf. QTBUG-120007). I might end up just painting everything
in QPainter, or find a different font rendering lib that isn’t Xft to do
the job based on what Fontconfig (that I need to query anyway) wants.
Cheers
Kai Uwe
