[Mageia-dev] new fonts?

Sat Sep 29 03:18:56 CEST 2012

On Sat, 2012-09-29 at 03:23 +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote:
+
+> 3) Fix the issue. Fedora actually has DejaVu fonts as default with
+> higher priority and Liberation fonts with a lower priority.
+
+Makes sense.
+
+[...]
+
+> It'd be really nice if someone looked over our font packages and fonts
+> config stuff and compared them to Fedora stuff, we may have yet more
+> WTFs in there...
+
+I'm not in a position to do that, sorry. But the Fedora font project has
+been quite active in the past.
+
+I wish we had a more fine-grained way to install/uninstall fonts:
+$ fc-list|wc -l
+2489
+but adding 2,000+ packages isn't the way to go.
+
+FontMatrix has ways to activate/deactivate fonts, but is not included at
+least in the Mageia 1 that I have here.
+
+Fonts, themes, background images, legal music files :-) and other
+resources could do with a way to manage them at a per-user and
+per-project level. This is a more general topic than Mageia is likely to
+solve I think :)
+
+Liam
+
+-- 
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