[opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-ux] Liberation fonts as default
Den Thursday 14 June 2007 06:02:29 skrev Mohammad Bhuyan:
Just installed Liberations Fonts (Red Hat) and changed KDE Desktop fonts to use them. I am not using sub pixel hinting and don't plan to use them due to MS patent over it.
Now that there is an open replacement for MS fonts to distribute freely (I assume that is the point of Liberation fonts), I was thinking if the future distributions install them as default fonts in Desktop and apps, then it will look good out of the box.
Think this is more a matter for -factory than for -ux. Therefore CC'ing. I also think this is something that needs to be reviewed. If it's not ready to be default it should at least be available on repos. In any case we need an official comment on it, and a good reason not to use it, if we won't, or people will automatically assume it's about politics and RedHat. Perhaps liberation fonts can replace Agfa-fonts.. one less proprietary package to worry about. From what I can tell Liberation Fonts is definitely a project we should support. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 14 June 2007 12:25:58 pm Martin Schlander wrote:
Perhaps liberation fonts can replace Agfa-fonts.. one less proprietary package to worry about.
I would love to see this happen. There are packages already available here: http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/mrdocs/openSUSE_10.2/repodata/re... Couldn't this package just be moved into the oss repo or install disks? -- Best Regards, David Miller --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 14 June 2007 16:10:31 David Miller wrote:
I would love to see this happen. There are packages already available here: http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/mrdocs/openSUSE_10.2/repodata/r
Couldn't this package just be moved into the oss repo or install disks?
How about doing some checking first? ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/noarch/liberation-fonts-0.1-11.noarch.rpm Bye, Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Am Donnerstag 14 Juni 2007 schrieb Martin Schlander:
Den Thursday 14 June 2007 06:02:29 skrev Mohammad Bhuyan:
Just installed Liberations Fonts (Red Hat) and changed KDE Desktop fonts to use them. I am not using sub pixel hinting and don't plan to use them due to MS patent over it.
Now that there is an open replacement for MS fonts to distribute freely (I assume that is the point of Liberation fonts), I was thinking if the future distributions install them as default fonts in Desktop and apps, then it will look good out of the box.
Think this is more a matter for -factory than for -ux. Therefore CC'ing.
I also think this is something that needs to be reviewed. If it's not ready to be default it should at least be available on repos. In any case we need
Hi Martin! You confuse me. Your mail implies the package is not in Factory - which is simply not the case. And if you volunteer to evaluate them seriously, you're very much welcome. Using the desktop with the font changed to be default in several languages (zh_TW, zh_CN, ko_KR, jp_JP, cs_CZ and de_DE should suffice) and checking if it looks ok should be a good start. Because changing font defaults has _always_ caused problems for SUSE, so we really will only do this if it makes no problems. Greetings, Stephan -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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