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

[Sam Parkinson]

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> 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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