[Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

[Tony Anderson]

Hi Sam,

I have enjoyed this sort of comment before. We go to great trouble to 
show users the source code of Sugar with the apparent intent that they 
should
experiment with making changes. Then developers comment, but 'they could 
break the system!'. What is wrong with giving the users the opportunity 
to delete a font and see the consequences. That is how we learn. Do we 
really want a Sugar with 'training wheels'?

Tony

On 07/02/2016 02:40 PM, Sam Parkinson wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 6:35 PM, Yash Agarwal <agrwal.ysh94 at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> Work report
>> I worked on the following issues:
>> Adding support for ufoz format
>> Adding git submodules
>> The editor has been integrated with the activity
>>
>> I'll begin adding the features for manipulating the bezier curves 
>> over the weekend
>> I'll make the complete week report on Sunday
>>
>> A question to ponder upon:
>> Should we make 2 separate activities
>> A font manager
>> A font editor
>> The manager will have root access and be integrated into sugars 
>> glucose module (correct me if I'm wrong) so that it's there with the 
>> pre installed activities
>> The editor will be separate and will only deal in ufoz /ufo format
>>
> Hi Yash,
>
> Why do we need root to install fonts?  Can't you just manage the fonts 
> in "~/.fonts" and call the rest of the fonts system fonts.  We really 
> shouldn't make it easy for users to delete system fonts - it will 
> annoy the package manager and it will probably break applications.  We 
> don't want users thinking "I don't use Deja Vu Sans" and then having a 
> very odd looking Sugar because they uninstalled the font we use in the UI.
>
> Maybe it would be best to add a control panel for fonts?  Activities 
> must have state, and write something to the journal.  Control panels 
> don't have to write a state to the journal.  Control panels are 
> "extensions" in sugar terms, meaning they are loaded from either 
> "/usr/share/sugar/extensions/cpsection/" or 
> "~/.sugar/$SUGAR_PROFILE/extensions".  This means that you could 
> include the font control panel extension with your app, and then 
> install it on your app's first run.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
>>
>> On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 21:28 Dave Crossland, <dave at lab6.com 
>> <mailto:dave at lab6.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Great stuff Yash!
>>
>>     The blog needs a bit of attention...
>>     https://github.com/sugarlabs/edit-fonts-activity/commit/cbdfaf2a2c5320ac417124ebd050087588cd4e6c
>>     is posted 10 days ago, but it wasnt on a friday, which is when we
>>     have
>>     to check in with walter, so I renamed it to
>>     https://sugarlabs.github.io/edit-fonts-activity/bezier-editing-works
>>
>>     However, you've then duplicated this file and appended to it -
>>     https://sugarlabs.github.io/edit-fonts-activity/week-5-work - so that
>>     its the same at the top
>>
>>     Please remove duplicate content :)
>>
>>     Also
>>     https://github.com/sugarlabs/edit-fonts-activity/blob/gh-pages/_posts/2016-06-28-week-5-work_wip.md
>>     seems to be not needed, so I made a PR to remove it,
>>     https://github.com/sugarlabs/edit-fonts-activity/pull/47
>>
>>     Since (a) you can set a post to not be published if you want to draft
>>     it on gh-pages, and (b) you can draft it in a git branch and only
>>     merge it when its ready, I suggest not creating such WIP files in
>>     future :) I have been trying to make blog posts with the (b) process
>>     but (a) is also fine, as you did in
>>     https://github.com/sugarlabs/edit-fonts-activity/commit/6507a9efbb266d31deadd3d4fccf5f190e6f8af0
>>     :)
>>
>>     Secondly, the filename of a Jekyll post must be unique after the
>>     date,
>>     so I made a PR to rename the latest features checklist,
>>     https://github.com/sugarlabs/edit-fonts-activity/pull/48
>>
>>     Please do review and merge these when you can :)
>>
>
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