Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1210 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Montag 03 November 2008 schrieb Marc Ensenbach:
> Stephan Kulow schrieb:
> > dejavu is our default, but I use liberation-fonts 1.04 now and I have to
> > say the difference to the arial webfont I used before is not noticable to
> > my font blind eyes :)
>
> "font blind eyes" may be a part of the problem. Is someone with thorough
> typographical knowledge involved in the decision process on fonts?
Mike is the expert, we base 99.9% of our decisions on his say.
> As someone with strong interest in typography and fonts, I can say that
> for me the look of the fonts on the screen was not only once the reason
> for me not to upgrade the system. (Mostly because of this, I still use
> SuSE 10.0 at work, since the look of fonts there is much superior
> compared to openSUSE 11.0.) I think, it would beneficial for the user
> experience of openSUSE, if the look of fonts (on the screen) would
> stronger be taken into account.
That doesn't sound like a constructive suggestion. Let me give you the
facts:
 - we won't put agfa-fonts back on our media, the decision to go "nice EULA"
   is set. Some may love commercial software, but it's a pain in the neck and
   we (the openSUSE "managers") decided to leave that past behind us
 - if you have a good suggestion of the free available fonts to become the
   default, then please file a bug (just as it was done with the
   liberation-fonts)
 - if you dislike the way free software renders free fonts, then I'm afraid
   you need to get involved in these projects and provide patches or
   constructive feedback. openSUSE is for most parts only a user of these
   free parts.

Greetings, Stephan

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