[Fontconfig-bugs] [Bug 100935] Provide means to store the font returned

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100935

--- Comment #4 from William L. Thomson Jr. <wlt-ml at o-sinc.com> ---
Downstream has closed this bug. For the record I think in part this is a EFL
toolkit issue. However they are not receptive to any sort of change to their
very strange font system. Even though I have shown host most all others allow
you to get fonts from objects. If not a global default system font from theme,
config, etc.

Without comment on the bug it was closed as wontfix downstream. Seems how they
are handling fonts entirely is very strange and unfriendly to application
development


You don't get to know what the font is that the theme has chosen because it's
abstracted. It may not even be the part name in the edj file that is the
"standard label" that determines the visible font. It may be something else.
It's abstract. You get to override or not. You don't get to peek inside the
black box.
https://sourceforge.net/p/enlightenment/mailman/message/35822987/

Which I think is crazy. Objects have a font used to render them. But it seems
getting such information is impossible, and they have chosen for such with some
abstracted black box design.

It is very odd!

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