On Wed, Aug 27, 2025, at 10:19 PM, Anirban Mitra via fonts wrote: > I have recently wrote a guest blog post regarding using Fontra open source > font editor in Linux [1]. > There I have wished Fontra be made available in repository of all major > Linux distributions including Fedora. Any guidance from Fedora fonts > community on how it can be packed for Fedora is highly appreciated Some of the dependencies are problematic. The Python package skia-pathops still needs to be made available in Fedora, this can be done but is quite a bit of work. Javascript dependencies are more problematic to package. Maybe upstream could consider separating out web components? The desktop application uses Qt, and QtQuick would be much better than Javascript, but the project vision seems to be web first. Maybe someone else is willing to package it. If they are willing to drop javascript, I would be happy to package and contribute to development. Have you tried BirdFont: https://github.com/johanmattssonm/birdfont This is much easier to package and maintain. Can check if upstream would consider adding variable font support. Happy to package this and contribute to development. Inkscape also has some support for creating fonts. Happy to improve what is there, and perhaps also improve FontForge integration. TruFont also could be packaged: https://github.com/trufont/trufont but would need updating to Qt6 and adding color font support. This would also be something I would be willing to help with. Bezy would also be easier to package: https://github.com/eliheuer/bezy However, you would probably need to ask Rust sig or someone interested in packaging Rust to make this available. > > Dr Anirban Mitra > 1. https://blog.fontra.xyz/blog/linux-support/ > > -- -- _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list -- fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to fonts-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
