docs: document Nerd Font + terminal setup for icon glyphs#13
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taolk's UI uses Nerd Font Material Design Icons (U+F0000-U+F1AF0) plus box-drawing borders. Without the right font/terminal setup users get tofu icons, misaligned borders, or invisible text -- which looks like a bug but is a font/terminal configuration issue. The install docs only mentioned alsa-lib. Add a "Nerd Font is required" section covering, with findings from testing: - install a FULL patched Nerd Font as the primary font (recommended) - why the symbols-only fallback is not enough: in VTE its glyphs render ~1.6 cells wide and break border/column alignment - GNOME Terminal: the single long-lived gnome-terminal-server must be restarted (logout/login) to pick up a newly installed font - palette/contrast: low-contrast schemes (Solarized) hide borders and dim text; use a conventional palette; tip to use a dedicated profile - verification: fc-match + a Pango font-selection check Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RoSjS1vtXJgJXw5Tbxroq4
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Problem
taolk's UI uses Nerd Font Material Design Icons (
U+F0000–U+F1AF0) plus box-drawing borders. The install docs only mentionalsa-lib, so users on a machine without a Nerd Font hit one or more of:All three look like taolk bugs but are font/terminal configuration issues.
What I verified (GNOME Terminal / VTE, the common case)
gnome-terminal-server; it loads fonts once at startup, so opening a new window after installing a font is not enough — the server (logout/login) must restart.Change
Adds a "A Nerd Font is required" section to the install docs:
fc-cache, restart the server, set the profile font, use a normal-contrast palette, and a tip to use a dedicated profilefc-match+ a Pango font-selection checkDocs-only; no code changes.
Draft
Opened as draft for maintainer feedback on scope/wording. A follow-up could add an optional ASCII/narrow-icon mode so taolk degrades gracefully with no Nerd Font at all.