[haiku-development] Re: Clean up the fonts folder
- From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 15:35:13 +0100
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 09:42:25AM +0100, Humdinger wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> We have a few font packages now, and the fonts folder looks quite
> messy. Some fonts are in
>
> a) $fontsDir/
> b) $fontsDir/{fontname}/
> c) $fontsDir/ttfonts/
> d) $fontsDir/ttfonts/{fontname}/
>
> The reason might be only aesthetical, but I'd like us to come to a
> guideline on how it's done right.
Actually not, as it seems some apps (Qupzilla) only look in ttfonts.
>
> I propose c) (with the equivalent for psfonts). No font-named
> subfolders. You see all your ttf fonts with all available styles in
> one folder. Use Tracker's type-ahead-filtering to limit to all styles
> of one font, or one style of all fonts...
Sounds fine to me. The fonts are more conveniently explored with
appropriate tools anyway (FontBoy and the like), rather than from
Tracker.
--
Adrien.
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