29th February, 2012

syncfonts is handy

When debugging font related stuff its typical that the problem can only be triggered by a specific set of fonts. Here’s a rough-and-ready syncfonts script which when given the output of fc-list -v will try and install the fonts that are missing and remove the extraenous ones via yum, which works for the common case

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2nd February, 2012

Clutter-box2dmm bindings updated to 0.12.1

I submitted a patch to Gnome bugzilla last night that updates the clutter-box2d C++ bindings so that they build against the current git master version of clutter-box2d. The patch is a little of a mess. However, this morning, I think the patch is a little less of a mess than I thought last night. Mainly because I managed to do the following on the train into work

Simply build one of the examples in the clutter-box2dmm folder.

I now have Fedora 15 & 16 packages for cluttermm, clutter-box2d and will have clutter-box2dmm later today. I’ll push these clutter-box2d* packages upstream to Fedora later, but I won’t hold my breath to see them approved. The approval process is a little unwieldy.

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