Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1210 mails)

[Michael Loeffler <michl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 03 November 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 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
yes, agfa-fonts would stop us providing a redistributable licence with 
11.1 and agfa-fonts come at cost. There's always tension between a 
free downlaodable Linux distro and useful proprietary software which 
comes with a $ sign on top. 
M
> 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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