Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Per-locale default font

[Mark K. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi,

Tux Paint Config on macOS is also unable to list fonts bundled with Tux
Paint.  This happens, at least on macOS, because the bundled fonts are not
installed but stays bundled with Tux Paint, outside the purview of Tux
Paint Config.

I've made this commit
<https://sourceforge.net/p/tuxpaint/tuxpaint-config/ci/4cfd3155c5282ffa3f260af05d2a30fa1027da95/>
to ensure fonts bundled with Tux Paint are always listed in UI Fonts
section of Tux Paint Config.  This is done by hard-coding the list of
bundled fonts.  The change affects all OS in hope that it'll be beneficial
to other OS, but let me know if it should be made into a macOS-specific
change.

Thanks,
Mark


On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 9:33 AM Shin-ichi TOYAMA <
dol...@wm...> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> The behavior of the font seartch methods seem to work differently on
> Linux and Windows.
>
> On linux, Tux Paint and Tux Paint Config seems not be able to find a
> locale font shipped with Tux Paint.
>
> On the other hand, they *can* find the locale font on windows.
>
>
> I think "noto sans" (pango's default on Rocky9?) looks good, but MS
> Gothic (default on Windows) looks quite bad.
>
> Please see some examples I wrapped up.
>
>   https://z1.plala.jp/tuxpaint/tmp/uifonts2.html
>
> I confirmed pango's default (noto sans) on Rocky9 is good enough and
> guess TkaoPGothick also would not be bad. Therefore, just specifing
> "GJGothicPNSubset" as a default for Japanese would be O.K. at least
> for Japanese.
>
> However, how is it on other distro's? How is it for other languages?
>
> I think it would be better if we could find a way to use locale fonts
> also on Linux.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 00:52:07 -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> >
> >For a long while now, Tux Paint has used "DejaVu Sans" as the
> >preferred font for the UI (requested via Pango, though based on what I
> >see in screenshots on Twitter, some folks don't have that font and
> >some alternatives are used).
> >
> >Recently, Shin-ichi noted that we have a font tucked away in
> >"fonts/locale/" that looks much better for use with Japanese text,
> >but we're not using it (we no longer load TTF files directly and use
> >SDL_ttf to render strings, it's all SDL2_Pango now).
> >
> >Therefore, I've added the ability for us (the Tux Paint developers)
> >to specify a preferred font on a per-locale basis.  It's simply
> >a language code (from our `src/i18n.h` file, e.g., "LANG_DE" for
> >German, "LANG_ZH_CN" for Chinese (Simplified), etc.) and a string
> >describing the font family we want Pango to load.
> >(If left unspecified, we'll continue to ask for "DejaVu Sans".)
> >
> >This is now in the Git master branch over in the SourceForge project,
> >and will be part of Tux Paint 0.9.31.
> >
> >I'm about to try to set fonts, as best I can, based on the collection
> >of TTF files we have been shipping with Tux Paint.  Those files seem
> >to be useless now, unless I'm mistaken!  However, I wonder if we could
> >install them into the system where Pango can find them, when installing
> >Tux Paint?  Or perhaps we could somehow point Pango to our directory
> >of locale fonts as an extra place to look when scanning for fonts...?
> >
> >Thoughts?
> >
> >And also, if you have a preferred font for your favorite locale,
> >please share and I can add it to the list!
> >
>
>
> --
> Shin-ichi TOYAMA <dol...@wm...>
>
>
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