Font customization#150
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This also implements a caching mechanism to avoid reloading all fonts every time. The cache can be invalidated with the `refresh` boolean. The implementation also uses different files based on the build target to list the correct folders based on the underlying os. A new dependency to read font metadata was added.
Prefer user system settings instead, and scale the whole interface from the frontend's zoom level. Maybe in a future commit we could add the persistence of the zoom level to the saved app config
- add dedicated component for appearance pane - add reusable anchored dropdowns - fix codemirror font settings - avoid unnecessary writes in stores
…fresh system fonts button
this implementation completely replaces the golang.org/x/image package because it has an issue with variable fonts is using the `ParseCollectionReaderAt` and `ParseReaderAt` functions.
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…y footprint" This reverts commit abe2121.
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This fork is used as a temporary solution until it's merged upstream. We should monitor [the issue we opened](golang/go#79489) and eventually the related PR. Co-authored-by: matstech <matteo.stabile2@gmail.com>
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Summary 💡
This PR adds system fonts retrieval to be used by the frontend, to enable users to change their preferred font for the general interface and for monospaced inputs.
Closes: #115
Description 📝
This implementation reads fonts from system folders (which are selected based on the build target), deduplicates all font families for the same font, and classifies them (monospace or not).
This also implements a caching mechanism to avoid reloading all fonts every time. The cache can be invalidated with the
refreshboolean in go function's invocations.It adds three new configuration parameters. The font family ones are backwards compatible: if missing, treat as default (font families as defined by the frontend by default).
A new go dependency (golang.org/x/image v0.39.0) to read font metadata was added.
I took the opportunity to rework the Appearance pane of the Settings modal: the color schemes where too big and wording around theme and colors was misleading. I refactored it to use dropdowns inside groups of cohesive settings:
Breaking Changes 💔
The zoom configuration setting is NOT backwards-compatible: it substitutes the previous LocalStorage-based implementation.
Tests performed 🧪