On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 02:06 +0100, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
2008/11/2 Kevin Dupuy <kevin.dupuy@opensuse.org>:
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.
The version of Liberation Fonts in Factory right now is liberation-fonts-0.1-122.3. Unfortunately, adding Liberation Sans to suse-post-user.conf'slist of autohinting and antialiasing-disabled fonts does nothing to help, at least to my eyes. 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. 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. I'd open a bug report against the fact that Liberation Sans isn't up to par with agfa-font Sans yet, and shouldn't be considered as a replacement, if we can determine that that's what's needed. -- Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy - openSUSE Member Public Mail: <kevin.dupuy@opensuse.org> Meet Bob Barr - Libertarian for President - <http://www.BobBarr2008.com/> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org