Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >> Anyone keen to fix this for Indiana? :) >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > > Historically, CDE on Solaris at least used to favor the Lucida fonts, which > are > AFAIK specifically designed for on-screen readability, and are also I think > available in scalable versions. Not sure how that would stack up with > expectations compared to your example of using Vera Sans instead. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Most users are familiar with Bitstream Vera Sans because afaik it's unencumbered by royalties. For years it has been the default font used for most of KDE and X11. I do prefer the Lucida and Adobe fonts, but so far no progress has been made with the petition to open up CDE. IMHO it needs to be dropped if it doesn't become open-source. While I'm not an avid enforcer of open-sourcing every single piece of code, the fact remains Sun gave adopters years to switch to JDS, and nothing new or worthwhile has came out of years of stagnation of development of CDE.
If there's a royalty free but not completely open font that can deliver a Lucida look-alike, which can be included, but perhaps not made default, it'd be a good option for those of us who don't mind setting it up and prefer an alternative option to Sans. That opens up a question, is the CDE font suitable for use with alternative desktop managers? I know Sun has CDE licensed still, so the font should be covered for use. James
