bulia byak wrote:
I'm not really qualified to give advice on this issue, but I would perhaps just try to store the PangoFontFace for a font in Inkscape in parallel with PangoFontDescription, so that this change would be minimally intrusive. Asking advice from Pango devs is also a good idea I think.
Yes, I will be trying to get into contact with the pango devs for sure, but because it's not something I can do before the GSoC deadline, I will be attempting instead to stop displaying fonts we can't work with for now, and improve the UI for font family and style (as previously discussed). Once my wedding frenzy is over I intend to look into this further. On initial investigation, however, PangoFontFace is frustratingly not that useful and we really seem to rely on PangoFontDescription. More investigation to come.
I will use pango_font_description_to_string as the font-specification (which I am for now anyway) unless I hear any other compelling suggestions... :) Note that while it's easy to change now, once a new version is released, we are pretty much committed!
Gail