Icon font (experimental) - #2304
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Adds `cargo xtask build-font`, which turns the SVG sources in fonts/i3status-icons/svg into a TTF and the matching icon set. The pipeline is pure Rust: usvg parses each source, the tiny-skia stroker converts strokes to filled outlines, kurbo converts cubics to the quadratics the glyf table requires, and write-fonts assembles the tables. Nothing here is invoked by cargo build, install.sh or CI -- both outputs are checked in, so this only runs when the icons change. The canonical icon names come from Icons::default() rather than being parsed out of icons.rs, so an icon with no source, or a source with no icon, fails the build instead of producing a set that silently disagrees with the code. The four new dependencies are on the xtask package only and are never compiled into i3status-rs.
Adds an icon set drawn for this project, covering every icon name including all progressions, plus the font that provides it. The font deliberately does not live under files/. Runtime files there are installed to /usr/share/i3status-rust, which fontconfig does not scan, so a font placed alongside the themes would never be found by either packagers or install.sh. It goes in fonts/ instead, and manual_install.md tells distributions to install it under /usr/share/fonts. The icons sit in the Private Use Area, U+E900..U+E962, assigned in sorted filename order. Those codepoints are baked into the icon set and can be referenced directly in icons_overrides, so they are a compatibility contract; fonts/i3status-icons/README.md explains what that means for anyone adding a glyph. Two tests guard the generated set: that its names still match Icons::default(), and that every codepoint is inside the font's range and unique.
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I think it would be best not to commit this and generate as needed. Like the manpage-upload github workflow this could be generated as part of the release.
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I think it would be best not to commit this and generate as needed. Like the manpage-upload github workflow this could be generated as part of the release.
Yes, good idea. Changed.
Follows the manpage: the TTF is no longer checked in, install.sh builds it, and a release workflow attaches it to each published release. Packaging notes updated to say the font is built rather than shipped. The icon set TOML stays checked in. It is a runtime data file like the other sets in files/icons, install.sh copies it with the rest of files/, and the tests read it -- so regenerating it on a clean checkout would be needed just to run cargo test. Also moves the test-only HashSet import into the tests module.
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A LLM generated font that contains all the icons we use, in SVG format, plus the tooling to build the actual font.
Font is usable but ugly - still, we might want to ship it, maybe a decent designer can replace worst icons?