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Ineluctable Overlay offers a repository of Gentoo ebuilds for projects that I am interested in, or are not yet available through Portage tree.
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[x11-misc/polybar] dependency font siji is missing #17

Closed Dr-Terrible closed 7 years ago

Dr-Terrible commented 7 years ago

polybar-2.5 is missing a dependency, font-set siji:

CMake Warning at cmake/utils.cmake:9 (message):
  Font not found: siji:pixelsize=10
bpinto commented 7 years ago

There are three fonts or font families queried during the build:

queryfont(FONT_FIXED ${FONT_FIXED} FIELDS family pixelsize)
queryfont(FONT_UNIFONT ${FONT_UNIFONT} FIELDS family fontformat)
queryfont(FONT_SIJI ${FONT_SIJI} FIELDS family pixelsize)

these are however optional fonts that are used in the example configuration:

optdepends = ttf-unifont: Font used in example 
optdepends = siji-git: Font used in example config

What is the proposed solution here? To use a custom USE flag to install these example fonts? I'm not sure if these are really a package dependency.

bpinto commented 7 years ago

Related issue https://github.com/jaagr/polybar/issues/407

Dr-Terrible commented 7 years ago

What is the proposed solution here? To use a custom USE flag to install these example fonts? I'm not sure if these are really a package dependency.

Honestly, I have mixed feelings about adding media-fonts/siji and media-fonts/unifont as dependencies. They are clearly an automagic dependency, which is already a bad thing per se: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Automagic_dependencies

But I also understand why polybar is having issues with siji in the first place as reported by https://github.com/jaagr/polybar/issues/407: it's a bitmap font-set. Bitmap fonts don't play well when mixed together with scaling font-sets (TrueType, OpenType), leading to all sorts of glitches and graphical artefacts — especially with Wayland. That is exactly what is happening in https://github.com/jaagr/polybar/issues/407 and it's going to prevent a decent user experience when polybar is coupled with Sway.

I think I'm going to tag this issue report with a wontfix tag, unless in the next few days I came up with a good reason to add fonts as deps :disappointed: .

Dr-Terrible commented 7 years ago

Meanwhile, I packaged siji for the curios Gentooists: https://github.com/Dr-Terrible/fonts-overlay/commit/9b976127a30962476e8da82f13067ea5cec3b66d

jaagr commented 7 years ago

I agree with @Dr-Terrible on this. The reason I added the font querying to the build was because I got tons of report from people having Wuncon Siji and different unifont versions installed. The example config is what it is; an example. Will eventually drop Siji in favor of Font Awesome.

bpinto commented 7 years ago

@Dr-Terrible should we tag this as wontfix and close this issue?