Kevin Kofler (kevin kofler chello at) said:
Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede <at> hhs.nl> writes:
Maybe some more backgroundinfo on these apps:
1) They originally both ship with copies of Arial (!= free) in there tarbals,
which get installed into the apps own data dir under /usr/share/app.
2) I've ripped these out of the src-tarbal (and the resulting package) and
replaced them with symlinks to the same style fonts from vera / dejavu.
If those were originally using Arial, wouldn't Liberation Sans be a better
replacement now that it's available? (Rationale: It has compatible metrics.)
So, maybe I'm insane, but if all you want is a sans bold, etc. font - that
can't be more than about 20 lines of fontconfig code to look for a match
for the 'sans' pattern and get a filename. That way:
- you don't have to hardcode any files
- you don't have to hardcode any requirements