[Fontconfig] Prgname and font-features?

[Akira TAGOH]

BTW I guess introducing FC_FONT_FEATURES into the cache causes the bump of
the cache version. so to avoid rapid increment of the version, we should
consider to implement other features too which is planning to update the
cache, if any and useful. possibly related bugs where we have in bz is:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50736
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50733
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38737
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29497
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27386
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26207
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22028
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18340
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18095
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17311



On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> 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.
>
> --
> behdad
> http://behdad.org/
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Akira TAGOH
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