Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Windows & Android (& others?) FontConfig `fonts.conf` parsing

[Shin-ichi T. <dol...@wm...>]

Hi!

I added the specific code to load fonts stored in user's profile because I had
thought like AI does that Windows does not use fontconfig to load fonts.

However, 

On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 02:29:32 -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>Tux Paint actually SHIPS with its own "fonts.conf" file for Windows [*],
>which includes these <dir> paths:
>
>  <dir prefix="cwd">data/fonts/locale</dir>
>  <dir prefix="cwd">data/fonts</dir>
>  <dir>WINDOWSFONTDIR</dir> <dir>WINDOWSUSERFONTDIR</dir>
>  <dir prefix="xdg">fonts</dir>
>  <dir>~/.fonts</dir>
>
>Those "WINDOWSFONTDIR" and "WINDOWSUSERFONTDIR" values seem to be magic
>strings used by FontConfig; see:
>
>  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/blob/main/src/fcxml.c#L1330
>
>I think at the very least, one place the Windows version of Tux Paint
>should look for "fonts.conf" is own one that ships with Tux Paint:
>`etc/fonts/fonts.conf` (inside Tux Paint).
>
>If we were to mimick the behavior of FontConfig itself when
>those two "WINDOWS...FONTDIR" values are seen, I think that might
>actually remove the need for your user font dir scanning code
>(added in `365ee3ea20af489996e045f97ae2d874e43f5591`).  Wouldn't it?

once reading this part, I thought you may be right.

Therefore I pulled your hack and disabled the code to read user's font directory.
Then, unfortunately,  Tuxpaint does NOT load user's font ;-<

Just a brief report so far.

Thanks.