[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 22621] RFE: Add font autoinstallation support

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22621


Frédéric Wang (:fredw) <fred.wang at free.fr> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Frédéric Wang (:fredw) <fred.wang at free.fr>  2014-06-22 01:06:58 PST ---
It seems to me that if we want this feature, WebKit should at least expose an API to register a callback for "missing fonts" that would provide some info about the font needed to render a visited page. Then browsers can use that to call PackageKit.

Note that math is a bit different than "human" language. In general, Linux distributions are localized and thus contains the appropriate fonts for the script of the current language, so autoinstallation would only be for languages other than the one of the system. For math, we don't really have a way to know if the user of the system is interested in math, even if the fact that a TeX distribution is installed (and thus Latin Modern Math) is one possibility. Autoinstallation would allow to guess that by checking that Math(ML) pages are visited.

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