Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1210 mails)

["Cristian Morales Vega" <cmorve69@xxxxxxxx>]

2008/11/2 Kevin Dupuy <kevin.dupuy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 19:30 +0100, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
> > This one was reported:
> > http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2008-09/msg00538.html
> > Apparently Liberation Fonts
> > (http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/05/09/liberation-fonts/) are seen
> > like a good enough open alternative (I have not even tested them, but
> > I believe openSUSE).
>
> I've just downloaded and tested them out, and they're less than adaquate
> as a replacement for the agfa-font's Sans as a font for the interface.
> In particular to me, the spacing seems off (too close together) and the
> bold font (as used on the window title bar) doesn't look right.
>
> Is there anyway to bring back agfa-fonts at least until the Liberation
> Sans are good enough as a drop-in replacement?

Looking at the liberation-fonts package from openSUSE:Factory OBS
project I see the package uses version 0.1. Looking at
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/ seems the
latest stable version is 1.04... I know *nothing* about fonts, but if
the 0.1 is the first version from the RedHat announcement they lack
any hinting information.

If there is really a problem (now OBS has the latest versions, true?)
I would also look at /etc/fonts/suse-post-user.conf from fontconfig
package. This file disables antialias and autohinting for a list of
know good fonts... *perhaps* liberation fonts should be added (perhaps
they are already here, I'm not using Factory).

I could open a bug report, but I would hit against the version freeze.
I suppose coolo is the one that could authorize an exception, but
someone with a better understanding of the situation should look at it
first.
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