On 23 November 2017 at 13:55, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > I think we should consider getting rid of this requirement. Updating > wiki pages is quite a bit of work, and we have better mechanisms to > advertise stuff to users that didn't exist a few years ago. Apart from > the manual effort, the problem with wiki pages is that they tend to > get out of date pretty quickly enough to be out-of-date to often to be > really trustworthy. Instead, I think it'd be better to spend the > effort on making gnome software support fonts even better and to improve > the appdata files for fonts to make them "shine" in gnome-software. > This would be > > a) less effort (a few minutes to create an appdata file when initially > packaging the font, very little ongoing effort, metadata is automatically > updated on package updates), > > b) actually more useful for users (you get a live list, click "install" > on the font you like, instead of going from a wiki page to the command > line). There are still some dinosaurs who don't use GNOME. Maybe some mechanisms that aren't dependent on that would be good? _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list -- fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to fonts-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
