Re: [FONTS]: Media Type Specification Changed.

[Raghav Gururajan]

Hi Tobias!

> The bad things.  All of them.  In order.

Oh! How are you doing now? Let me know if you need anything. I can try
and help in any way plausible. :-)

> You did fine, only renaming ‘truetype’ -> ‘ttf’ should have been
> separate.  If it had been, I don't think it would have been merged.

That change has been discussed during review and was only merged after I
gave the fact of about fontconfig. :-)
 
> Also omitting it from the change log feels... sneaky, while I'm sure
> that wasn't your intention.

I understand. I should have mentioned in the log. But it was not sneaky.
As mentioned above, it was discussed during review. ;-)

But yeah, I should add that to my workflow of making comments/logs.

> Anyway: since ‘share/fonts/ttf’ makes font-gnu-freefont inconsistent
> with our other fonts[0] for little reason I'd like to revert it back to
> ‘truetype’ & change ‘share/fonts/otf’ to ‘opentype’ as well.  What do
> you think?
> 
> (Not sure what to do with ‘woff’ so I won't touch it.)

Agreed! I do not like inconsistencies either. Please find the patch
attached with this email.

>> But anyway, before merging I well-tested the patch. It does not affect
>> anything.
> 
> I know :-)  Fontconfig doesn't care about the subdirectory names, it
> just scans them all.  The names are for humans.  All the more reason not
> to abbreviate them IMO.

Makes sense.

Regards,
RG.

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