Lars Müller
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
Hi, I was thinking about this issue and found the thread. I agree with OP as since ms fonts are on the top in the priority list, as soon as I install ms fonts all my desktop starts using ms fonts as default - even though I usually install those for specific purposes only. I wish msfonts to have lower priority in /etc/fonts/suse-post-user.conf, or is there a way to have a user specific settings file? Best, Joon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org