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+/*
+
+Configuration files are linked to /etc/fonts/conf.d/
+
+This module generates a package containing configuration files and link it in /etc/fonts.
+
+Fontconfig reads files in folder name / file name order, so the number prepended to the configuration file name decide the order of parsing.
+Low number means high priority.
+
+*/
+
+{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:
+
+with lib;
+
+let
+  cfg = config.fonts.fontconfig;
+
+  fcBool = x: "<bool>" + (boolToString x) + "</bool>";
+  pkg = pkgs.fontconfig;
+
+  # configuration file to read fontconfig cache
+  # priority 0
+  cacheConf  = makeCacheConf {};
+
+  # generate the font cache setting file
+  # When cross-compiling, we can’t generate the cache, so we skip the
+  # <cachedir> part. fontconfig still works but is a little slower in
+  # looking things up.
+  makeCacheConf = { }:
+    let
+      makeCache = fontconfig: pkgs.makeFontsCache { inherit fontconfig; fontDirectories = config.fonts.fonts; };
+      cache     = makeCache pkgs.fontconfig;
+      cache32   = makeCache pkgs.pkgsi686Linux.fontconfig;
+    in
+    pkgs.writeText "fc-00-nixos-cache.conf" ''
+      <?xml version='1.0'?>
+      <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'urn:fontconfig:fonts.dtd'>
+      <fontconfig>
+        <!-- Font directories -->
+        ${concatStringsSep "\n" (map (font: "<dir>${font}</dir>") config.fonts.fonts)}
+        ${optionalString (pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform == pkgs.stdenv.buildPlatform) ''
+        <!-- Pre-generated font caches -->
+        <cachedir>${cache}</cachedir>
+        ${optionalString (pkgs.stdenv.isx86_64 && cfg.cache32Bit) ''
+          <cachedir>${cache32}</cachedir>
+        ''}
+        ''}
+      </fontconfig>
+    '';
+
+  # rendering settings configuration file
+  # priority 10
+  renderConf = pkgs.writeText "fc-10-nixos-rendering.conf" ''
+    <?xml version='1.0'?>
+    <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'urn:fontconfig:fonts.dtd'>
+    <fontconfig>
+
+      <!-- Default rendering settings -->
+      <match target="pattern">
+        <edit mode="append" name="hinting">
+          ${fcBool cfg.hinting.enable}
+        </edit>
+        <edit mode="append" name="autohint">
+          ${fcBool cfg.hinting.autohint}
+        </edit>
+        <edit mode="append" name="hintstyle">
+          <const>hintslight</const>
+        </edit>
+        <edit mode="append" name="antialias">
+          ${fcBool cfg.antialias}
+        </edit>
+        <edit mode="append" name="rgba">
+          <const>${cfg.subpixel.rgba}</const>
+        </edit>
+        <edit mode="append" name="lcdfilter">
+          <const>lcd${cfg.subpixel.lcdfilter}</const>
+        </edit>
+      </match>
+
+    </fontconfig>
+  '';
+
+  # local configuration file
+  localConf = pkgs.writeText "fc-local.conf" cfg.localConf;
+
+  # default fonts configuration file
+  # priority 52
+  defaultFontsConf =
+    let genDefault = fonts: name:
+      optionalString (fonts != []) ''
+        <alias binding="same">
+          <family>${name}</family>
+          <prefer>
+          ${concatStringsSep ""
+          (map (font: ''
+            <family>${font}</family>
+          '') fonts)}
+          </prefer>
+        </alias>
+      '';
+    in
+    pkgs.writeText "fc-52-nixos-default-fonts.conf" ''
+    <?xml version='1.0'?>
+    <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'urn:fontconfig:fonts.dtd'>
+    <fontconfig>
+
+      <!-- Default fonts -->
+      ${genDefault cfg.defaultFonts.sansSerif "sans-serif"}
+
+      ${genDefault cfg.defaultFonts.serif     "serif"}
+
+      ${genDefault cfg.defaultFonts.monospace "monospace"}
+
+      ${genDefault cfg.defaultFonts.emoji "emoji"}
+
+    </fontconfig>
+  '';
+
+  # bitmap font options
+  # priority 53
+  rejectBitmaps = pkgs.writeText "fc-53-no-bitmaps.conf" ''
+    <?xml version="1.0"?>
+    <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "urn:fontconfig:fonts.dtd">
+    <fontconfig>
+
+    ${optionalString (!cfg.allowBitmaps) ''
+    <!-- Reject bitmap fonts -->
+    <selectfont>
+      <rejectfont>
+        <pattern>
+          <patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
+        </pattern>
+      </rejectfont>
+    </selectfont>
+    ''}
+
+    <!-- Use embedded bitmaps in fonts like Calibri? -->
+    <match target="font">
+      <edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign">
+        ${fcBool cfg.useEmbeddedBitmaps}
+      </edit>
+    </match>
+
+    </fontconfig>
+  '';
+
+  # reject Type 1 fonts
+  # priority 53
+  rejectType1 = pkgs.writeText "fc-53-nixos-reject-type1.conf" ''
+    <?xml version="1.0"?>
+    <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "urn:fontconfig:fonts.dtd">
+    <fontconfig>
+
+    <!-- Reject Type 1 fonts -->
+    <selectfont>
+      <rejectfont>
+        <pattern>
+          <patelt name="fontformat"><string>Type 1</string></patelt>
+        </pattern>
+      </rejectfont>
+    </selectfont>
+
+    </fontconfig>
+  '';
+
+  # fontconfig configuration package
+  confPkg = pkgs.runCommand "fontconfig-conf" {
+    preferLocalBuild = true;
+  } ''
+    dst=$out/etc/fonts/conf.d
+    mkdir -p $dst
+
+    # fonts.conf
+    ln -s ${pkg.out}/etc/fonts/fonts.conf \
+          $dst/../fonts.conf
+    # TODO: remove this legacy symlink once people stop using packages built before #95358 was merged
+    mkdir -p $out/etc/fonts/2.11
+    ln -s /etc/fonts/fonts.conf \
+          $out/etc/fonts/2.11/fonts.conf
+
+    # fontconfig default config files
+    ln -s ${pkg.out}/etc/fonts/conf.d/*.conf \
+          $dst/
+
+    # 00-nixos-cache.conf
+    ln -s ${cacheConf}  $dst/00-nixos-cache.conf
+
+    # 10-nixos-rendering.conf
+    ln -s ${renderConf}       $dst/10-nixos-rendering.conf
+
+    # 50-user.conf
+    ${optionalString (!cfg.includeUserConf) ''
+    rm $dst/50-user.conf
+    ''}
+
+    # local.conf (indirect priority 51)
+    ${optionalString (cfg.localConf != "") ''
+    ln -s ${localConf}        $dst/../local.conf
+    ''}
+
+    # 52-nixos-default-fonts.conf
+    ln -s ${defaultFontsConf} $dst/52-nixos-default-fonts.conf
+
+    # 53-no-bitmaps.conf
+    ln -s ${rejectBitmaps} $dst/53-no-bitmaps.conf
+
+    ${optionalString (!cfg.allowType1) ''
+    # 53-nixos-reject-type1.conf
+    ln -s ${rejectType1} $dst/53-nixos-reject-type1.conf
+    ''}
+  '';
+
+  # Package with configuration files
+  # this merge all the packages in the fonts.fontconfig.confPackages list
+  fontconfigEtc = pkgs.buildEnv {
+    name  = "fontconfig-etc";
+    paths = cfg.confPackages;
+    ignoreCollisions = true;
+  };
+in
+{
+  imports = [
+    (mkRenamedOptionModule [ "fonts" "fontconfig" "ultimate" "allowBitmaps" ] [ "fonts" "fontconfig" "allowBitmaps" ])
+    (mkRenamedOptionModule [ "fonts" "fontconfig" "ultimate" "allowType1" ] [ "fonts" "fontconfig" "allowType1" ])
+    (mkRenamedOptionModule [ "fonts" "fontconfig" "ultimate" "useEmbeddedBitmaps" ] [ "fonts" "fontconfig" "useEmbeddedBitmaps" ])
+    (mkRenamedOptionModule [ "fonts" "fontconfig" "ultimate" "forceAutohint" ] [ "fonts" "fontconfig" "forceAutohint" ])
+    (mkRenamedOptionModule [ "fonts" "fontconfig" "ultimate" "renderMonoTTFAsBitmap" ] [ "fonts" "fontconfig" "renderMonoTTFAsBitmap" ])
+    (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "fonts" "fontconfig" "hinting" "style" ] "")
+    (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "fonts" "fontconfig" "forceAutohint" ] "")
+    (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "fonts" "fontconfig" "renderMonoTTFAsBitmap" ] "")
+    (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "fonts" "fontconfig" "dpi" ] "Use display server-specific options")
+  ] ++ lib.forEach [ "enable" "substitutions" "preset" ]
+     (opt: lib.mkRemovedOptionModule [ "fonts" "fontconfig" "ultimate" "${opt}" ] ''
+       The fonts.fontconfig.ultimate module and configuration is obsolete.
+       The repository has since been archived and activity has ceased.
+       https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate/issues/171.
+       No action should be needed for font configuration, as the fonts.fontconfig
+       module is already used by default.
+     '');
+
+  options = {
+
+    fonts = {
+
+      fontconfig = {
+        enable = mkOption {
+          type = types.bool;
+          default = true;
+          description = ''
+            If enabled, a Fontconfig configuration file will be built
+            pointing to a set of default fonts.  If you don't care about
+            running X11 applications or any other program that uses
+            Fontconfig, you can turn this option off and prevent a
+            dependency on all those fonts.
+          '';
+        };
+
+        confPackages = mkOption {
+          internal = true;
+          type     = with types; listOf path;
+          default  = [ ];
+          description = ''
+            Fontconfig configuration packages.
+          '';
+        };
+
+        antialias = mkOption {
+          type = types.bool;
+          default = true;
+          description = ''
+            Enable font antialiasing. At high resolution (> 200 DPI),
+            antialiasing has no visible effect; users of such displays may want
+            to disable this option.
+          '';
+        };
+
+        localConf = mkOption {
+          type = types.lines;
+          default = "";
+          description = ''
+            System-wide customization file contents, has higher priority than
+            <literal>defaultFonts</literal> settings.
+          '';
+        };
+
+        defaultFonts = {
+          monospace = mkOption {
+            type = types.listOf types.str;
+            default = ["DejaVu Sans Mono"];
+            description = ''
+              System-wide default monospace font(s). Multiple fonts may be
+              listed in case multiple languages must be supported.
+            '';
+          };
+
+          sansSerif = mkOption {
+            type = types.listOf types.str;
+            default = ["DejaVu Sans"];
+            description = ''
+              System-wide default sans serif font(s). Multiple fonts may be
+              listed in case multiple languages must be supported.
+            '';
+          };
+
+          serif = mkOption {
+            type = types.listOf types.str;
+            default = ["DejaVu Serif"];
+            description = ''
+              System-wide default serif font(s). Multiple fonts may be listed
+              in case multiple languages must be supported.
+            '';
+          };
+
+          emoji = mkOption {
+            type = types.listOf types.str;
+            default = ["Noto Color Emoji"];
+            description = ''
+              System-wide default emoji font(s). Multiple fonts may be listed
+              in case a font does not support all emoji.
+
+              Note that fontconfig matches color emoji fonts preferentially,
+              so if you want to use a black and white font while having
+              a color font installed (eg. Noto Color Emoji installed alongside
+              Noto Emoji), fontconfig will still choose the color font even
+              when it is later in the list.
+            '';
+          };
+        };
+
+        hinting = {
+          enable = mkOption {
+            type = types.bool;
+            default = true;
+            description = ''
+              Enable font hinting. Hinting aligns glyphs to pixel boundaries to
+              improve rendering sharpness at low resolution. At high resolution
+              (> 200 dpi) hinting will do nothing (at best); users of such
+              displays may want to disable this option.
+            '';
+          };
+
+          autohint = mkOption {
+            type = types.bool;
+            default = false;
+            description = ''
+              Enable the autohinter in place of the default interpreter.
+              The results are usually lower quality than correctly-hinted
+              fonts, but better than unhinted fonts.
+            '';
+          };
+        };
+
+        includeUserConf = mkOption {
+          type = types.bool;
+          default = true;
+          description = ''
+            Include the user configuration from
+            <filename>~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf</filename> or
+            <filename>~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d</filename>.
+          '';
+        };
+
+        subpixel = {
+
+          rgba = mkOption {
+            default = "rgb";
+            type = types.enum ["rgb" "bgr" "vrgb" "vbgr" "none"];
+            description = ''
+              Subpixel order. The overwhelming majority of displays are
+              <literal>rgb</literal> in their normal orientation. Select
+              <literal>vrgb</literal> for mounting such a display 90 degrees
+              clockwise from its normal orientation or <literal>vbgr</literal>
+              for mounting 90 degrees counter-clockwise. Select
+              <literal>bgr</literal> in the unlikely event of mounting 180
+              degrees from the normal orientation. Reverse these directions in
+              the improbable event that the display's native subpixel order is
+              <literal>bgr</literal>.
+            '';
+          };
+
+          lcdfilter = mkOption {
+            default = "default";
+            type = types.enum ["none" "default" "light" "legacy"];
+            description = ''
+              FreeType LCD filter. At high resolution (> 200 DPI), LCD filtering
+              has no visible effect; users of such displays may want to select
+              <literal>none</literal>.
+            '';
+          };
+
+        };
+
+        cache32Bit = mkOption {
+          default = false;
+          type = types.bool;
+          description = ''
+            Generate system fonts cache for 32-bit applications.
+          '';
+        };
+
+        allowBitmaps = mkOption {
+          type = types.bool;
+          default = true;
+          description = ''
+            Allow bitmap fonts. Set to <literal>false</literal> to ban all
+            bitmap fonts.
+          '';
+        };
+
+        allowType1 = mkOption {
+          type = types.bool;
+          default = false;
+          description = ''
+            Allow Type-1 fonts. Default is <literal>false</literal> because of
+            poor rendering.
+          '';
+        };
+
+        useEmbeddedBitmaps = mkOption {
+          type = types.bool;
+          default = false;
+          description = "Use embedded bitmaps in fonts like Calibri.";
+        };
+
+      };
+
+    };
+
+  };
+  config = mkMerge [
+    (mkIf cfg.enable {
+      environment.systemPackages    = [ pkgs.fontconfig ];
+      environment.etc.fonts.source  = "${fontconfigEtc}/etc/fonts/";
+      security.apparmor.includes."abstractions/fonts" = ''
+        # fonts.conf
+        r ${pkg.out}/etc/fonts/fonts.conf,
+
+        # fontconfig default config files
+        r ${pkg.out}/etc/fonts/conf.d/*.conf,
+
+        # 00-nixos-cache.conf
+        r ${cacheConf},
+
+        # 10-nixos-rendering.conf
+        r ${renderConf},
+
+        # 50-user.conf
+        ${optionalString cfg.includeUserConf ''
+        r ${pkg.out}/etc/fonts/conf.d.bak/50-user.conf,
+        ''}
+
+        # local.conf (indirect priority 51)
+        ${optionalString (cfg.localConf != "") ''
+        r ${localConf},
+        ''}
+
+        # 52-nixos-default-fonts.conf
+        r ${defaultFontsConf},
+
+        # 53-no-bitmaps.conf
+        r ${rejectBitmaps},
+
+        ${optionalString (!cfg.allowType1) ''
+        # 53-nixos-reject-type1.conf
+        r ${rejectType1},
+        ''}
+      '';
+    })
+    (mkIf cfg.enable {
+      fonts.fontconfig.confPackages = [ confPkg ];
+    })
+  ];
+
+}