Re: [dev] Re: [st] [PATCH 0/1] Add font array support

From: NRK <nrk_AT_disroot.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 09:13:06 +0000

Hi Eric,

> > I'm resubmitting my patch for specifying fonts as an array in st in
> > hopes of having it upstreamed. This can theoretically be done with
> > fonts.conf, but I think fonts.conf is a nightmare to deal with and
> > cannot be done on a per-application basis with doing something like
> > making wrappers that set certain FC_* environment variables. Besides,
> > the other graphical suckless projects -- dwm and dmenu -- have supported
> > this for years.
>
> Following up hoping someone with st commit privileges will take a look
> at this.

The proper list for sending patch is hackers_AT_suckless.org.

I haven't taken a look into the patch itself, but I agree with using an
array to configure fallback fonts similar to dwm and dmenu. This is
something I mentioned in the past [0] and Roberto/k0ga also agreed with
it [1], so this shouldn't be a controversial change (I think).

[0]: https://lists.suckless.org/dev/2208/34923.html
[1]: https://lists.suckless.org/dev/2208/34926.html

- NRK
Received on Fri Aug 30 2024 - 11:13:06 CEST

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