The UUID files would be placed in each font directory to provide the
unique cache name, independent of path, for that directory. The UUID
files are undesireable for a couple of reasons:
1) They must be placed in the font directories to be useful. This
requires modifying the font directories themselves, introducing
potential visible timestamp changes when running multiple
applications, and makes the cache processing inconsistent between
applications with permission to write to the font directories and
applications without such permission.
2) The UUID contents were generated randomly, which makes the font
cache not reproducible across multiple runs.
One proposed fix for 2) is to make the UUID dependent on the font
directory path, but once we do that, we can simply use the font
directory path itself as the key as the original MD5-based font cache
naming mechanism did.
The goal of the UUID file mechanism was to fix startup time of
flatpaks; as the font path names inside the flatpak did not match the
font path names in the base system, the font cache would need to be
reconstructed the first time the flatpak was launched.
The new mechanism for doing this is to allow each '<dir>' element in
the configuration include a 'map' attribute. When looking for a cache
file for a particular directory, if the directory name starts with the
contents of the <dir> element, that portion of the name will be
replaced with the value of the 'map' attribute.
Outside of the flatpak, nothing need change -- fontconfig will build
cache files using real directory names.
Inside the flatpak, the custom fonts.conf file will now include
mappings such as this:
<dir map="/usr/share/fonts">/run/host/fonts</dir>
When scanning the directory /run/host/fonts/ttf, fontconfig will
use the name /usr/share/fonts/ttf as the source for building the cache
file name.
The existing FC_FILE replacement code used for the UUID-based
implementation continues to correctly adapt font path names seen by
applications.
v2:
Leave FcDirCacheCreateUUID stub around to avoid removing
public API function.
Document 'map' attribute of <dir> element in
fontconfig-user.sgml
Suggested-by: Akira TAGOH <akira@tagoh.org>
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
GPerf seems not allowing the empty lines though, current recipes are supposed to drop them.
but seems not working on some env.
So taking the proper way to do that instead of incompatible things against platforms.
Trying to address what these configuration files really do.
This change allows to see the short description that mention
the purpose of the content in the config file and obtain
them through API.
This change also encourage one who want to make some UI for
the user-specific configuration management. it is the main
purpose of this change for me though.
Aside from that, I've also made programs translatable. so
we see more dependencies on the build time for gettext,
and itstool to generate PO from xml.
This feature requires the FreeType 2.5.1 or later at the build time.
Besides <range> element allows <double> elements with this changes.
This may breaks the cache but not bumping in this change sets at this moment.
please be aware if you want to try it and run fc-cache before/after to
avoid the weird thing against it.
As of automake-13.1 the INCLUDES directive is no longer supported.
An automake run will return with an error.
This changeset simply follows automake's advice to replace INCLUDES
by AM_CPPFLAGS.
FcStat() logic is quite complicated in presence of various semi-broken operating
systems and filesystems, split it out in order to make it a bit easier.
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net>
Add configure options to set the directory to be installed:
--with-templatedir for the configuration files a.k.a.
/etc/fonts/conf.avail
--with-baseconfigdir for fonts.conf etc a.k.a. /etc/fonts
--with-configdir for the active configuration files a.k.a.
/etc/fonts/conf.d
--with-xmldir for fonts.dtd etc
and the default path for templatedir is changed to
${datadir}/fontconfig/conf.avail
$< isn't supported in BSD make say. $(RM) is pre-defined in GNU make
though, not in BSD make say. so changed to check on configure if it's
pre-defined by make, otherwise set the appropriate command to $(RM).
This would be a workaround until it has the certain pre-defined value.
The syntax to add any characters to the charset table looks like:
<match target="scan">
<test name="family">
<string>Buggy Sans</string>
</test>
<edit name="charset" mode="assign">
<plus>
<name>charset</name>
<charset>
<int>0x3220</int> <!-- PARENTHESIZED IDEOGRAPH ONE -->
</charset>
</plus>
</edit>
</match>
To remove any characters from the charset table:
<match target="scan">
<test name="family">
<string>Buggy Sans</string>
</test>
<edit name="charset" mode="assign">
<minus>
<name>charset</name>
<charset>
<int>0x06CC</int> <!-- ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH -->
<int>0x06D2</int> <!-- ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE -->
<int>0x06D3</int> <!-- ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE WITH HAMZA ABOVE -->
</charset>
</minus>
</edit>
</match>
You could also use the range element for convenience:
...
<charset>
<int>0x06CC</int> <!-- ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH -->
<range>
<int>0x06D2</int> <!-- ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE -->
<int>0x06D3</int> <!-- ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE WITH HAMZA ABOVE -->
</range>
</charset>
...
Akira TAGOH
Keith Packard
Olivier Crête
Behdad Esfahbod
Sebastian Freundt
Mikhail Gusarov
Tor Lillqvist