I was recently informed that unicode has official symbols for
window controls, and I put together a change to use them, which
worked, as long as a suitable font was installed. However, it's
not that hard to get a normal system that lacks an appropriate
font, and libass wants to print warnings if the symbols aren't
in the default font, which will almost always be true.
So, I gave up and added the symbols to the custom osd font that
we already have. This ensures they are always available, and
that they are aligned consistently on all platforms.
I took the symbols from the `symbola` font, as this has a suitable
licence and the symbols look nice enough.
Symbola Licence:
Fonts are free for any use; they may be opened, edited,
modified, regenerated, packaged and redistributed.
Finally, as we now have access to an un-maximize symbol, I added
logic to use it when the window is maximized.
Cherry picked from various commits in lua_experiment by ChrisK2.
The metrics of the OSD symbols change slightly, possibly due to the
font editor that was used, and the metrics were not correct to begin
with. (But the real reason seems unknown.) Remove the rescaling of
the OSD font in ASS_USE_OSD_FONT, because the height more or less fits
now. (This change wasn't in the lua_experiment branch.)
The old OSD font was a PostScript Type 1 font. Convert it to OpenType
to work around a fontconfig bug [1]. OpenType is a more modern format,
and the font file is quite a bit smaller, so this is actually a nice
change.
The conversion was done by opening the font with fontforge and saving
it as OpenType (CFF). fontforge showed a warning when doing this:
The font contains errors.
Self Intersecting
Bad Private Dictionary
These seem to be harmless.
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63922
Philip Langdale
Ricardo Constantino
ChrisK2
wm4