Alexander GQ Gerasiov skrev:
Most Windows applications work fine without Tahoma.
Well, on the one hand, there are "most" applications, and on the other, there are very popular and very important applications which everyone and their mother want to work. I guess there's a tradeoff. So please refer to the upstream bug report, you can complain there if you like. All you have to do is convince them of the error of their ways, and packages on all distros will follow suit, including Debian...
They use Verdana instead and everybody are happy.
Verdana is a part of msttcorefonts. Because msttcorefonts provides non-free fonts, msttcorefonts is in contrib, which is not officially "part of Debian". It is currently a Debian policy requirement that *no* package in main (including Wine) are allowed to depend on functionality provided by contrib or non-free. Hence, "everybody" won't include casual (or maybe "ideal") Debian users, because they just won't have Verdana.
That leaves to choose any random font from the user's sytem, and I'm pretty sure that is a sure recipe for the Wine developers getting lots of complaints about crappy UI, with button labels that are too big to fit the buttons and whatnot. (On Debian, where not even Arial might be available, the problem would be exacerbated.) Introducing a Windows-compatible font, Tahoma, helped them avoid most of these complaints. But they're still working on it, of course.
users caught serious regression with this release.
Wine is a work in progress (nominally "beta") and "serious regressions" happen regularly and often fairly deliberately. That's not going to change until Wine 1.0 is released (which has been "soon" for more than 2 years). If you want a "stable" version of Wine, you should buy CodeWeaver's version or something.
Like I said, take it to Wine developers if you don't like what they are doing.
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