Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1210 mails)

[Kevin Dupuy <kevin.dupuy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 09:19 +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Sonntag 02 November 2008 schrieb Kevin Dupuy:
> > The version of Liberation Fonts in Factory right now is
> > liberation-fonts-0.1-122.3.
> Hmm, this looks like something that should not be. Please file a bug.

Done. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440913

> > Even if Liberation Fonts are going to be used, there are still two
> > issues: (please note I use GNOME, so this is a GNOME-centric list).
> > 1. Liberation fonts are not installed by default from the DVD as
> > agfa-fonts were.
> This looks like a bug too ;(

Filed. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440914

> > 2. Instead of replacing the bad-looking default Sans, Liberation adds
> > it's own Liberation Sans font. The downside to this is that GNOME & GDM
> > are set by default to use Sans, so the better Liberation font is not
> > chosen by default.
> What does "fc-match sans" say?

DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

> agfa-fonts will be removed in any case (the decision to go with a clear DVD 
> EULA is set and agfa-fonts license does not allow ftp distribution). The 
> question is only about what the default should be.

I support using open source software wherever possible. I just hope the user 
experience is not degraded because of it.

> Please note that the 11.0 live cds and ftp installations didn't have 
> agfa-fonts either and I'm not aware of any complaints.

Neither did the 10.3 CDs, and it took me a while to figure out what
happened. Don't underestimate the power of a bad font to degrade the
professional look of a distro like openSUSE.

That said, I'm going to install the updated liberation-fonts, and
hopefully those will look  better ;-).
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