Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (491 mails)

[Lars Müller <lmuelle@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 12:22:50PM +0100, Mariusz Fik wrote:
> Dnia środa, 1 lutego 2012 01:03:13 Sven Burmeister pisze:
> > Am Dienstag, 31. Januar 2012, 22:43:11 schrieb Mariusz Fik:
> > > current fontconfig configuration[1] sets the highest priority for
> > > Microsoft font. If user install them (i.e. Times New Roman, Arial,
> > > Consolas) they will be set as _default_ for respectively families
> > > (sans-serif, sans, monospace). Why do we promote Microsoft fonts
> > > instead support open fonts, shipped with system?
> > >
> > > I propose[2] to downgrade those fonts. Thanks to this, we keep our
> > > default font settings but those MS fonts will be still available for
> > > use.
> > >
> > > Whats Your point of view in this case?
> >
> > Are you sure that the free fonts have the same quality – even if
> > anti-aliasing is disabled? I remember ugly characters with free fonts
> > unless I would use bitmap fonts and that's a no-go IMHO. My suggestion is:
> > Set the best quality fonts as default. Those that do not want to use MS
> > fonts simply do not install them. There was a reason to prefer those fonts
> > and AFAIR it was quality or lack thereof regarding the free fonts.
>
> The goal is: to not set those fonts as _default_ and not to get them rid off 
> . 
> Why Joe when install i.e. Consolas font should get it set as default 
> monospace 
> font? Maybe he want's only to use it in a single program?

Please continue this thread at opensuse-factory as it was already
suggested as part of this thread.  Therefore the Reply-To got set.

The begin of this thread was here:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2012-01/msg02101.html

Why?

Cause it's more likely that you'll get the required attention.

Thanks,

Lars
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Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ]
Samba Team
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