Re: [Fedora-fonts-list] freefont

["Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas mailhot laposte net>]

Le Lun 15 octobre 2007 16:21, Máirín Duffy a écrit :
> Hey,

Hi Máirín,

> It seems if I install freefont, it sets itself as the default font
> system-wide in X & GNOME - it's quite ugly though, and it's thin so it
> makes my terminal and my messages in thunderbird difficult to read.

Freefont is not very appreciated by font designers. It was real hard
to convince everyone DejaVu was not another Freefont to blacklist in
the first years :)

> Is there something with freefont's packaging that sets it to be the
> default font on install?

While I don't like some parts of the Freefont spec it does not include
anything fontconfig-related (if you use the official
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=4785 fedora
package).

Something else has changed your fontconfig priorities, or your
fontconfig version dates is inheriting the Debian choice of putting
Freefont first (and then installing the font activates the priority)

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot