[Fontconfig] Another proposal for saving custom fonts in fontconfig

[Akira TAGOH]

No warnings please. that's NOT users' fault. but application
developers, and/or bad design in API.

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 7:39 PM Peng Wu <peng.e.wu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2019-07-02 at 18:12 +0900, Akira TAGOH wrote:
> > No. I thought we agreed with not using blackboxed parameters in
> > private discussions. that API potentially expects to override
> > everything with FcPattern which isn't desired at this point. if you
> > want to override a property other than FC_FONT_VARIATIONS, it should
> > be "const FcChar8 *object, const FcChar8 *value" instead of
> > "FcPattern *custom".
>
> I think if the user supply some property which is not allowed to
> be overridden, fontconfig can print warnings and ignore that property.
>
> And initially I think we need only to implement to set the font
> variations and features properties, for other properties just print
> warnings and ignore it in fontconfig.
>
> Thanks,
>   Peng
>


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Akira TAGOH