[PATCH weston v2 1/2] Add font entry to shell section for title fonts

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 18:53:30 -0700
"Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre at mecheye.net> wrote:

> Set a font description like "Sans" and then let Pango do the glyph
> selection with fallback fonts. It hooks together with fontconfig -- it
> knows well enough what font options are available.

I agree with that.

Ryo, will you be sending another patch then?


Thanks,
pq

> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Ryo Munakata <ryomnktml at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 18:01:51 -0700
> > "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre at mecheye.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I don't think that's a great idea. The rest of my system uses Pango's
> > > algorithms for doing font fallback and font shaping, and I don't see a
> > > reason to differ from it.
> > >
> > > Not to mention that it's very unlikely that I want my window title to
> > > suddenly switch completely to a fullwidth font because it had one
> > Japanese
> > > character in it.
> > >
> >
> > Hi, Jasper.
> >
> > So do you think that the fonts list isn't needed?
> > If users want the behavior Bill showed, they just need to set fonts=sans.
> > That doesn't suddenly switch completely to a fullwidth font.
> >
> > I want to know what you need.
> > Please tell me the way you want to solve the problem which is why I wrote
> > this series.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > --
> > Ryo Munakata <ryomnktml at gmail.com>