Activating/Deactivating a Font file

[YashAgarwal]

I can use the following to install a .ttf or .otf file in sugar but I require root access for it

mv path/to/font/file /usr/share/fonts
fc-cache -f -v 

I can use subprocess module to run the commands through my activity but how do I provide it root access or is there another way to do this?

[samdroid-apps]

Can you use the ~/.fonts directory? That is how I usually install
fonts on my computer :)

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 6:59 AM, Yash Agarwal
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I can use the following to install a .ttf or .otf file in sugar but I
require root access for it

mv path/to/font/file /usr/share/fonts
fc-cache -f -v
I can use subprocess module to run the commands through my activity
but how do I provide it root access or is there another to do this?

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[YashAgarwal]

@samdroid-apps yeah I can, but that folder doesn't exist on my sugar environment, all the fonts were stored in /usr/share/fonts
won't my activity need root for writing to that directory to?

[samdroid-apps]

No, just create a ~/.fonts directory.

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Yash Agarwal
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@samdroid-apps yeah I can, but that folder doesn't exist on my sugar
environment, all the fonts were stored in /usr/share/fonts
won't my activity need root for writing to that directory to?

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[walterbender]

You don't need root for -/fonts
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@samdroid-apps https://github.com/samdroid-apps yeah I can, but that
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won't my activity need root for writing to that directory to?

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[YashAgarwal]

oh, thanks @walterbender

[YashAgarwal]

if the font file is in /user/share/fonts then I won't be able to deactivate the font file by moving the file out of the folder and running fc-cache -f -v or is there any other way of deactivating font without having root privileges.

[davelab6]

@YashAgarwal you should be able to get root with gksudo (http://askubuntu.com/questions/51572/why-should-i-use-gksudo-for-gtk-apps-instead-of-sudo)

However, one of the things Eli and I discussed yesterday in the youtube video is that the editor could by default only deal with UFOs; that means you could avoid dealing with /usr/share/fonts entirely

[davelab6]

I believe this is now ready for testing in the next .xo release

[davelab6]

On Ubuntu 14.04, the fonts folder path is ~/.local/share/fonts so we'll need to account for that too.

[davelab6]

Next action is to uncomment this code in PR #74