FS#50089 - [powerline-fonts] contains only PowerlineSymbols.otf but not the fonts.

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Christian Rebischke (Shibumi) - Monday, 18 July 2016, 17:46 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Wednesday, 20 July 2016, 13:54 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Jiachen Yang (farseerfc)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
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Details

Hello,
the current version of Powerline-fonts contains only the PowerlineSymbols. There are no fonts like inconsolata for Powerline.
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Wednesday, 20 July 2016, 13:54 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  User requested: Ok. Seems like i am wrong and the font\ for\ powerline-fonts are deprecated. Everything ok!
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Tuesday, 19 July 2016, 02:59 GMT
Which appears to be correct, as far as I can see. Maybe missing deps, though?
Comment by Jiachen Yang (farseerfc) - Tuesday, 19 July 2016, 03:43 GMT
PowerlineSymbols.otf should be enough for Linux fontconfig based rendering. We have included a fontconfig conf file to let fontconfig perfer PowerlineSymbols and fallback to the original font.
Pre-patched fonts like "Inconsolata for Powerline" are only needed on non-Linux systems.
See also: https://powerline.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/linux.html#fonts-installation
Comment by Christian Rebischke (Shibumi) - Tuesday, 19 July 2016, 15:10 GMT
Hello,
No PowerlineSymbols.otf is not enough for rxvt-unicode. I have included this in my .Xressources:

urxvt*font: xft:Inconsolata:size=9:antialias=true:hinting=true, xft:PowerlineSymbols:size=9

This is not enough. The Fallback on PowerlineSymbols is not working. Some other users suggested that I should
edit the line to this:

urxvt*font: xft:Inconsolata\ for\ Powerline:size=9:antialias=true:hinting=true, xft:PowerlineSymbols:size=9

But there is the problem that powerline-fonts doesn't supply fonts like inconsolata for powerline.
Seems like the powerline-fonts-git package in the AUR has it. But I would prefer to the official package.

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