Showing fonts in GNOME Software

[pravin.d.s at gmail.com]

On 16 October 2014 13:38, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16 October 2014 08:07, pravin.d.s at gmail.com <pravin.d.s at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > While going through metadata, i found situation is bit familiar with
> > fontconfig (.conf) files in font packages. As per font packaging
> guideline
> > fontconfig file is mandatory for each font packages.
>
> Kinda. I think fontconfig files are a very good idea to be mandatory,
> so they actually work when installed. We *don't* want all fonts to
> have MetaInfo files however; some fonts are poor quality or only
> contain some glyphs (e.g. the Ubuntu title font) and we don't want to
> show those.
>

Does this means only a subset of packages will be accessible via
gnome-software and for other users need to do dnf search/install?

User will not see particular font unless until he search. I think good to
allow all and let user decide which is good quality and which is not.

Regards,
Pravin Satpute
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