Icecat is missing fonts

Hi

After installing Icecat on guixsd v0.16 and starting it it shows only

squares instead of text and pango warns "missing font nimbus ..."

I think we should add font-gnu-freefont-ttf to the input of icecat to

fix this to make it work out of the box.

If on a foreign distribution guix should of course also notice if the

correct XDG-env variables are missing when installing icecat and hint.

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Cheers

Swedebugia

Em 06/01/2019 08:31, swedebugia@riseup.net escreveu:

This behavior seems similar to what I experience while using Guix in

Trisquel 8.0

Flidas. The problem doesn't cause squares to appear, it actually causes

the last text font that fontconfig advertises to IceCat, to be selected.

I don't know how fontconfig selects these fonts, but I noticed that you

can test this by placing some font in "~/.local/share/fonts" and running

`fc-cache -vf'. IceCat should pick that font. You might need to try with

different fonts, as IceCat seems to expect from fontconfig that it

selects fonts with specific properties.

merge 33996 32835

thanks

This is a duplicate of 32835. Let’s continue the discussion there.

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Ricardo

I just downloaded v0.16 and installed it on the bare hardware using

the minimal desktop configuration (the one whose example includes

`ratpoison').

After `guix package -i icecat', running it will show boxes as reported

by the OP. I confirm that OP's solution of `guix package -i

font-gnu-freefont-ttf' fixes this problem. Can't this be fixed at its

root, please? It has been two months.

Thank you.

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Best regards,

Tadeus

On 2019-03-23 01:00, Tadeus Prastowo wrote:

This is definitely not hard :)

Would you like to submit a patch with font-gnu-freefont-ttf as input (or

maybe propagated input?) to icecat?

I did not do it for various reasons one being that testing the patch

requires building icecat.

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Cheers

Swedebugia

swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:

Let’s not rush to conclusions. We usually don’t add fonts to inputs

unless they are required at build time.

As far as I’m aware of the problem was that XDG environment variables

were not set (or the executables were not sufficiently wrapped). Has

this been confirmed yet?

Users should be free to pick whatever font they want – or choose to not

install any additional fonts.

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Ricardo

merge 39538 32835