DejaVu fonts for Fedora Core 6 feedback call

[dragoran]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Mer 5 juillet 2006 08:37, dragoran a écrit :
>
>   
>> I tryed it but for me the default font used in apps (FC5) looks better
>> and is easier to read...
>> the new fonts look to 'thin' and are harder to read because of this ..
>> notes:
>> 1) I am using a TFT with a german locale + no subpixel AA, but greyscale
>> AA
>> 2) I have recompiled the freetypelib with the bytecode interpretter
>> enabled
>>     
>
> I seem to remember the bytecode interpreter makes DejaVu lighter (and
> users of proprietary systems prefer it this way). Can you try it with the
> default fedora freetype ?
>
> I've opened the following ticket. Feel free to complete it
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7427
>
>   
this is marked as wontfix :(
using no bytecode interpreter makes other fonts (the ms stuff used on 
most webpages looks very(!!) ugly
what about a dejavu-fonts-bytecodeinterpreter package with fixed fonts 
for bytecode interpretter users?
> Regards,
>
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