Bug#360610: various comments

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:13:08AM +1100, Peter Moulder wrote: - For the one application that I ever run in wine, installing msttcorefonts made the difference between whether that application was usable under wine or not: without msttcorefonts, most text fields just didn't show

Bug#360610: various comments

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 02:42:37PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:13:08AM +1100, Peter Moulder wrote: - For the one application that I ever run in wine, installing msttcorefonts made the difference between whether that application was usable under wine

Bug#360610: various comments

2007-12-09 Thread Ove Kaaven
Robert Millan skrev: On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 02:42:37PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:13:08AM +1100, Peter Moulder wrote: - For the one application that I ever run in wine, installing msttcorefonts made the difference between whether that application was

Bug#360610: various comments

2007-12-09 Thread Ove Kaaven
Robert Millan skrev: On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:13:08AM +1100, Peter Moulder wrote: - For the one application that I ever run in wine, installing msttcorefonts made the difference between whether that application was usable under wine or not: without msttcorefonts, most text

Bug#360610: various comments

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 06:40:37PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: I take it we don't have any free arial fonts. Ove, can we just make wine prefer something else when no font is found, or something like this? I suppose the Liberation fonts would work as a substitute, because they're specifically

Bug#360610: various comments

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 07:32:49PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: Running all win32 applications is important, but since we have free fonts to do it, depending on Microsoft fonts doesn't make any sense. This argument only makes the least bit of sense if the free fonts actually aim to emulate the

Bug#360610: various comments

2007-12-09 Thread Ove Kaaven
Robert Millan skrev: Ok, but can these just not be *wingdings*? Anything is better than that. Technically, it was Marlett, not Wingdings. Marlett is also bundled with Wine. Anyway, if this type of font selection problem persists, you could always try to improve the font selection algorithm