[HaikuDepot] doesn't display rating stars without VL-Gothic fonts

[diver]

Ever since VL-Gothic fonts were outsourced in hrev48457 HaikuDepot can't display rating stars in columnlistview if vl_gothic package is not installed. Featured packages view still display stars though (custom drawing?).

[pulkomandy]

I should note that the VL-Gothic package is added to the release profile, making this not too critical for R1.

[luroh]

Looks like I'm not seeing the same here, no VL-Gothic present but plenty of stars in HaikuDepot. Clean, from Linux cross-compiled hrev48460, gcc2, nightly-vmware profile. Attaching screenshot. Fwiw, I'm using the default locale.

[diver]

Ok, this was because of droid fonts package. Without it stars are back. So I guess something is wrong with font overlay then?

[axeld]

Yes, IIRC we still don't have any.

[stippi]

No, actually we do have some font overlay support. But the font used for the overlay is hardcoded, IIRC.

[stippi]

Diver, when you had the droid installed, did you also use it as your system default font?

[diver]

Yes, that what I've just tested. With DejaVu set as plain text the stars are there. With droid set as plain text there are no stars. VL-Gothic was not installed in both tests.

[pulkomandy]

Ah, I didn't notice that. So here is probably what happens:

• The stars are available in DejaVu, but not Droid
• You didn't have VL-Gothic installed so there was no way to fallback to it (it is our only fallback font currently)

Root problem is the same anyway: we need a better font overlay that will look for missing symbols in more fonts, until it finds one that works.

[stippi]

It appears that the Haiku base package should declare a dependency to VL-Gothic, since that is actually the situation. The app_server hard-codes VL-Gothic in the fall-back, so it "depends" on it. There is no question that the font overlay mechanism could be a lot better, however, declaring the dependency is a) correct and b) fixes the problem at hand.

[anevilyak]

(In #11620) Duplicate of #11581.

[Giova84]

Sorry for the dup. As I've reported on my ticket, I've also found this issue with Terminal. I can confirm that installing the VL Gothic font has solved the issue, although I use different fonts for displaying.

[pulkomandy]

I added vl_gothic as a dependency of the Haiku package in hrev48505. Closing this since font overlay problems are already tracked in #7961.