[Mageia-dev] new fonts?

Tue Sep 25 21:54:07 CEST 2012

Dimitri <mitya at ...> writes:
+> The changes in default fonts might be related to recent
+> fonts-ttf-liberation update. Since 2.00, this package ships fontconfig
+> settings that by default substitute Liberation fonts for "sans-serif",
+> "serif" and "mono" families. This is done
+> by /etc/fonts/conf.d/59-liberation-*.conf files (in fact, just symlinks
+> to /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/59-liberation-*.conf). I am too much
+> accustomed to my usual font set, so I trashed those symlinks
+> immediately :)
+
+This topic came up in the packagers meeting.  It was stated that:
+- the change was initiated by Thierry Vignaud (tv)
+- the change was also done in Fedora
+
+Of course, I wondered if it's only been done in Rawhide, if maybe nobody has
+seen it to complain about it yet :o)
+
+Anyway, it would be nice if a decision could be made on this before next week's
+alpha 2, and I was asked to e-mail the list about this by Anne.
+
+Possibilities:
+1) revert this change
+2) someone put their foot down and decide we're sticking with this
+
+If 2, it'd be nice to have an explanation of why that users could be pointed to,
+as a lot of people have asked about this on IRC as well (and will continue to,
+I imagine).  Also, if it's really that bothersome for some people, maybe it would
+be good to have an easy way for users to change this locally.
+
+