~/.fonts/ is deprecated for user fonts; fnt should use the proper XDG directory

[janc13]

the default /etc/fonts/fonts.conf has:

<!-- Font directory list -->

        <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
        <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir>
        <dir prefix="xdg">fonts</dir>
        <!-- the following element will be removed in the future -->
        <dir>~/.fonts</dir>

As you can see, ~/.fonts/ is deprecated now, and it should be whatever XDG environment variables point to (or ~/.local/share/fonts/ by default).

[alexmyczko]

that /etc/fonts/fonts.conf comes with https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fontconfig, looking at the version in sid, and then at the versions from archive.d.o: https://sid.ethz.ch/debian/fnt/fc/ around 2014 with version 2.11 that warning as comment was added. it'll take how many more decades of year to happen? is there plan timeline somewhere?

[alexmyczko]

what's that XDG variable called exactly? i'm having trouble finding it...

grep ".local/share" -ri /etc 2>/dev/null |grep font
/etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/fonts: owner @{HOME}/.local/share/fonts/ r,
/etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/fonts: owner @{HOME}/.local/share/fonts/** r,
/etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/fonts: /usr/local/share/fonts/ r,
/etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/fonts: /usr/local/share/fonts/** r,
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf:

/usr/local/share/fonts

env |grep XDG
XDG_SESSION_ID=123
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1234
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=tty
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user

horrible!
so i'll check env if there's anything with XDG, then use
the default named, unless there is XDG_DATA_HOME which i would use then, fallback
to what already exists.

[janc13]

The variable to use is indeed XDG_DATA_HOME (or assume it’s $HOME/.local/share if that doesn't exist).

So ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/fonts

(And sorry for answering this late.)

[alexmyczko]

if XDG_DATA_HOME does not exist, does macOS or any BSD or non-linux system propose .local/share instead of a .dir directly?

[Tachi107]

if XDG_DATA_HOME does not exist, does macOS or any BSD or non-linux system propose .local/share instead of a .dir directly?

I doubt this is relevant for macOS, as fnt doesn't use $HOME/.fonts on that platform.

FreeBSD uses the XDG directory too

And looking at the fonts-conf(5) man page this also seems true for OpenBSD