[haiku-development] Re: Adding screensavers and fonts
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:46:31 +0100
On 16/01/2014 17:10, Adrien Destugues wrote:
>
> On 2014-01-16 at 17:01:34 [+0100], Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Hello there!
>>
>> Now that package management is here, do we still need to be able to
>> install screensavers from within the ScreenSaver prefs? (Does the
>> existing "Add..." function work even anymore?)
>> I don't think so. Users will get their software as hpkg from now on.
>
> +1 to removing that, but we should still support a non-packaged directory
> to read them from. Just in case :)
Plus themes can now also be packaged and depend on specific screensavers
also and cause them to install automatically...
>>
>> Fonts OTOH are different. Only very few will be available as hpkg,
>> most will be downloaded from some website. Therefore, an easy way to
>> install fonts might be interesting.
>
> Just copy the fonts in the existing folder in non-packaged/fonts. Do we
> really need a specific tool to copy the files around?
Just set Appearance as supporting TTF files, and if passed one on the
command line just ask the user if he wants to copy it over...
François.
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