On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 08:34:35PM +0000, Will Crawford wrote: > 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 get out of date pretty quickly enough to be out-of-date to often to be 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? I'd try to write a page generator that'd turn appdata files into html. Might be useful for more than fonts. That doesn't even seem like that much work, to write such a script and have it run once a week and update the html for all updated packages and push it out to a server somewhere. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list -- fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to fonts-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
