[Bug 70829] Re: gdm theme should use dejavu fonts
I had a chat with Athanasios and we concluded that the GDM themes do come from Ubuntu (and not from upstream GDM), from the packages mentioned in this report. The clean solution is for the themes to reference the Sans/Serif/etc font aliases instead of individual fonts. I recommend applying this patch. There should be other languages affected, especially those that require extended latin characters that Bitstream Vera does not cater for. -- gdm theme should use dejavu fonts https://launchpad.net/bugs/70829 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 70829] Re: gdm theme should use dejavu fonts
And here is a screenshot of the theme with the patch applied. ** Attachment added: "Screenshot with patch applied" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6298458/Screenshot-FeistyVM.png -- gdm theme should use dejavu fonts https://launchpad.net/bugs/70829 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 70829] Re: gdm theme should use dejavu fonts
@ Simos Xenitellis The themes from GNOME seem to use the alias Sans (I check with gdm-2.17.6) . Its just the edgy/feisty gdm theme that doesn't use the alias but uses "Bitstream Vera Sans Bold" instead. Replaces "Bitstream Vera Sans" with "Sans". ** Attachment added: "Replaces "Bitstream Vera Sans" with "Sans"" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6298405/feisty-gdm-themes.patch -- gdm theme should use dejavu fonts https://launchpad.net/bugs/70829 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 70829] Re: gdm theme should use dejavu fonts
** Also affects: feisty-gdm-themes (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- gdm theme should use dejavu fonts https://launchpad.net/bugs/70829 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 70829] Re: gdm theme should use dejavu fonts
I believe the ideal solution would be to adapt the default GDM themes to use the common aliases such as Sans, Serif and Monospace, instead of specifying individual fonts. I would mark this as an upstream bug for the GDM package at GNOME (hint, hint, who wants to do this?) -- gdm theme should use dejavu fonts https://launchpad.net/bugs/70829 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 70829] Re: gdm theme should use dejavu fonts
I can also confirm this bug in edgy. The gdm font is ugly with greek text, exactly as shown at the screenshots posted by Athanasios Lefteris . -- gdm theme should use dejavu fonts https://launchpad.net/bugs/70829 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 70829] Re: gdm theme should use dejavu fonts
Another screenshot to illustrate the problem. ** Attachment added: "Screenshot 2" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5809389/screenshot2.png -- gdm theme should use dejavu fonts https://launchpad.net/bugs/70829 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 70829] Re: gdm theme should use dejavu fonts
I use Edgy and the default human edgy-gdm-theme. Here is a screenshot of that the problem is: ** Attachment added: "Screenshot 1" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5809388/screenshot1.png -- gdm theme should use dejavu fonts https://launchpad.net/bugs/70829 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 70829] Re: gdm theme should use dejavu fonts
** Summary changed: - gdm should use dejavu fonts + gdm theme should use dejavu fonts ** Description changed: Binary package hint: gdm - gdm seems to use some other font other that the default dejavu font. I - think it must be a bitsteam font. The menu that pops up when clicking - "Options" seems to use the correct font. + The gdm theme seems to use some font other that the default dejavu font. + I think it is a bitsteam font. The menu that pops up when clicking + "Options" is using the correct font. Without the dejavu fonts, Greek characters look horrible. -- gdm theme should use dejavu fonts https://launchpad.net/bugs/70829 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
