Add console font selection to Locales menu#4469
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Add a 4th menu item "Console font" to the Locales configuration, allowing users to select a console font for the target system. The selected font is written to /etc/vconsole.conf. If a terminus font (ter-*) is selected, the terminus-font package is automatically installed on the target system.
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Address svartkanin's review on archlinux#4469. Replace os.listdir + chained removesuffix with Path.glob('*.gz') + split('.')[0], and cache the result via lru_cache - the kbd consolefonts directory is static at runtime so re-scanning on every menu reopen was wasted I/O.
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PR Description:
Adds a new
Console fontitem (4th) to the Locales submenu, allowing the user to pick a font for the target system's TTY (written to/etc/vconsole.conf).Font list is built from
/usr/share/kbd/consolefontson the running ISO.If the user picks a
ter-*terminus font, theterminus-fontpackage is automatically added to the target install.Why
Currently the target TTY always gets
default8x16regardless of the language the user picked. That breaks for users with languages that need a wider Unicode coverage (partialy addresses #3735). Giving a menu entry is the simplest fix that doesn't force heuristics on anyone.Behavior / backward compatibility
default8x16, so existing user configs and default installs produce the exact samevconsole.confas before.LocaleConfigurationgainsconsole_font: str = 'default8x16'. Old configuration JSONs without that field keep working via the default value.json()/_load_config()/preview()sides are updated symmetrically.Scope
One thing only - menu selection + vconsole write. A follow-up PR will offer to propagate the installer's chosen language (sys_lang / sys_enc / console_font) to the target locale configuration.
Test
/etc/vconsole.confcontainsFONT=default8x16as before.ter-v32bin the menu:FONT=ter-v32b,terminus-fontinstalled.user_configuration.jsonwith noconsole_font: default kicks in, no crash.