As a user, I would very much like to have a "base package" setup of LXDE that comes with some relatively nice defaults. Often, people relatively new to linux will as a friend "what desktop 'thingy' is best?" And we will always try to touch several bases. They will fire up whatever package manager comes in Distro-X, and away they go. A long time ago, I used to really enjoy Fluxbox. Semi recently I installed it just for grins...I had forgot how much effort went into my old Flux desktops....heh! So, having a relatively nice, sane, set of defaults would probably be a really good idea. Especially since linux is getting more and more attention. Valves has Steam for linux in the works generating interest, Windows 8 seems to be a missfire for MS, XP is all but dead, and MS is beating people over the head to move Up to Win8...
Now is a good time to be an old time linux user! That said, now is also a great time for projects like this one! :) I really like what you are doing here! Gary On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Jerome Leclanche <adys...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 7:54 PM, PCMan <pcman...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Jerome Leclanche <adys...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Also after actually trying it out, its not a fontconfig management > >> gui, its a font preview and management app. > >> > >> The main idea is to have a lxqt-font-config app where you can: > >> - Manage fonts > > This part may be stolen from kde. > > Editing xml fontconfig rules is too difficult and it's not possible to > > create an easy-to-use UI for the task. > > Creating a simple tool to install/uninstall truetype fonts is possible. > > Policykit can be used to gain root access so we can install the font > > files to the system-wide font dir. > > We should not install fonts system-wide. User-specific font paths work > just fine. > > > Many people claim that fonts should be packaged, this will never work > > since you cannot package proprietary fonts. > > So an installation tool for *.ttf files is a must-have. > > There is packaging and packaging. "Packaging" doesn't care whether the > font is classified, under NDA, closed source, DRM'd and encrypted; > it's just files. Now if you want it to be installable from debian, > sure. > I completely agree we need the functionality to install a font > (locally)... but as far as shipping goes, there's no reason we should > pull in fonts ourselves; let the distro recommend a default font to > the user (or X11). > > > Also it will be cool if the tool can auto-detect an existing Windows > > installation and import the fonts in it. > > This is a cool idea and I might write a script for that, but I don't > think it's in scope. > > > > >> - Set the default fonts > >> - Set antialiasing properties > > > > Shouldn't these belong to lxqt-config-appearance? > > Besides, the default fonts are GUI toolkit specific. > > > > Cheers > > > >> J. Leclanche > >> > >> > >> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Jerome Leclanche <adys...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> Apparently fontmatrix depends on qtwebkit. This is a dealbreaker. > >>> J. Leclanche > >>> > >>> > >>> On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Petr Vaněk <p...@yarpen.cz> wrote: > >>>> What about Fontmatrix? > >>>> https://github.com/fontmatrix/fontmatrix > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On 09/03/14 16:33, PCMan wrote: > >>>>> I'm interested in this, but I don't really know how to setup > >>>>> fontconfig correctly. > >>>>> Its rules are just too complicated. > >>>>> The rules can be combined with AND, OR operations, and can contain > nested > >>>>> rules. > >>>>> I don't think that it's possible to create any full-featured yet > >>>>> easy-to-use GUI for it, > >>>>> A simple font installer is possible, though. > >>>>> > >>>>> On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jerome Leclanche <adys...@gmail.com> > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>>> I've been looking thoroughly at font configuration and I cannot for > >>>>>> the life of me find any fontconfig gui other than the awful, awful > >>>>>> "font-manager" from gnome. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Does anyone know a project with solid foundations we could look at? > Or > >>>>>> is anyone up to the task? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> J. 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