Comps, or, Making it Easier for Users to Find Software

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Sat Mar 11 17:30:51 UTC 2006


Rick L Vinyard Jr (rvinyard at cs.nmsu.edu) said: 
> > > We (FE) are packaging more and more good general (iow not language 
> > > specific) free fonts. I like the idea of a font group.
> > 
> > Well, if it's good for the general case, shouldn't it be part of
> > one of the desktop groups?
> 
> >From a user's perspective, I like the idea of fonts available as an
> individual package. 
> 
> While it is true that any user could manually install the fonts, having
> packages available makes the fonts accessible to those that don't have
> the time to hunt down and manually install a given font.
> 
> In general, I think that any particular font that is packaged
> individually is simply going to be used by more people than it would if
> it were part of another package.

Not sure what you're saying. I'm not talking about how you package
it, I'm talking about how you display it for people to install
from.

Bill




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