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Font broken in GUI application with guix pack |
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Sun, 17 May 2020 05:05:39 +0100 |
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Evolution 3.34.2 |
Hi,
This is the command I ran to generate a pack:
guix pack -RR -S /opt/zrythm/bin=bin -L . zrythm
I then tried moving this pack to a VM running another distro
(archlinux) and all letters are shown as boxes. I have asked other
people to test it on other distros, including debian, and they reported
the same issue.
I am not exactly sure what is missing. Attaching a screenshot of what
it looks like.
I tried adding a propagated input for font-cantarell, font-gnu-freefont
and font-dejavu just to see if it would work, without success.
Thanks,
Alex
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Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts. |
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Thu, 21 May 2020 00:00:39 +0200 |
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Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 04:50:12PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> This is a hack to make (some) fonts working when users don't have fonts
>> specified in their system configuration, and (crucially) places where
>> the fontconfig cache may be unavailable such as 'guix pack's.
>>
>> I'm not sure whether font-dejavu is a good replacement here. Another
>> approach could be to convert gs-fonts to TrueType or OpenType format.
>>
>> Thoughts? I don't know much about fonts and would appreciate feedback.
>
> I think you should push right away, assuming that it helps and doesn't
> rebuild the world.
I pushed the patch as ab9de8cfb0525ef43668712ac898707f97f9a620.
I verified that it fixes the immediate problem with fonts in the Guix
manual (#41282) as well as 'guix pack' (#41344). It should also provide
a decent fallback for cases where the user did not explicitly install
any fonts such as in #41241.
Hoping for angry reports now about why such a poor replacement font was
chosen. ;-)
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