Re: default fonts in Fedora

[nicolas mailhot laposte net]

>
> Colin Walters (walters verbum org) said:
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > As far as I can tell, gnome-desktop doesn't include explicit (default
>> or
>> > otherwise) fonts either.
>>
>> I haven't dug through the dependency graph yet, but looking at
>> fedora-livecd-desktop.ks:
>>
>> google-droid-sans-fonts
>> google-droid-sans-mono-fonts
>> google-droid-serif-fonts
>>
>> These are wrong and should be in the comps group.  Looks like Matthias
>> added them.  I'll move them to comps now.
>
> Is there a reason we make these the default instead of the more-or-less
> current default of dejavu?

Because they're not the default, the defaults are defined in the @fonts
group, this is an experiment by the desktop team, without any
concertation, or understanding on how we managed fonts so far.

I learned about it when the bug report landed in my lap.