[Fontconfig] Prgname and font-features?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

There's also some minor discussion here:

  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547472

On 13-01-10 04:31 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just pushed a change to Pango that allows one to enable OpenType font
> features through fontconfig configs.  For example:
> 
> <match target="font">
>   <edit name="pangofontfeatures" mode="append">
>     <string>smcp</string>
>     <string>ss20</string>
>   </edit>
> </match>
> 
> But I figured this is probably of interest to more than just Pango.  Shall we
> upstream this?
> 
> Another element type I have in Pango that may be worth upstreaming is
> "pangoprgname", which pango sets to the output of g_get_prgname().  If you are
> running gedit, it expands to gedit.  It's useful for doing per-app
> configuration.  Any interest in upstreaming that?
> 
> Of course upstreaming these is only the first part.  One has to go chase all
> fontconfig users to actually respect these.  But to me, I'm really interested
> in enabling features and implement them correctly in the font stack I
> maintain, and let others pick it up for their favorite system.
> 

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