Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-28 Thread Anssi Hannula
27.09.2012 09:55, EatDirt kirjoitti: On 25/09/12 21:54, David Walser wrote: This topic came up in the packagers meeting. It was stated that: - the change was initiated by Thierry Vignaud (tv) - the change was also done in Fedora Ah, thanks for the infos! Although I think the first

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-28 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-09-29 at 03:23 +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote: [resending from the right address; I wish evolution would fix that bug!] 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

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-28 Thread Liam R E Quin
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

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-27 Thread EatDirt
On 25/09/12 21:54, David Walser wrote: This topic came up in the packagers meeting. It was stated that: - the change was initiated by Thierry Vignaud (tv) - the change was also done in Fedora Ah, thanks for the infos! Although I think the first reason is a good reason (tv), the second is

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-25 Thread brian . smith
On Monday 24 Sep 2012 14:12:53 Liam R E Quin wrote: Are the Liberation Font's UTF8 Complete? Strictly speaking UTF-8 is an encoding, a way of representing 32-bit integers in as few bytes (octets) as possible while still working with text tools; those 32-bit integers are Unicode codepoints,

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-24 Thread Liutauras Adomaitis
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 12:30 PM, eatdirt dirt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, is that a bug that all default fonts on kdm, firefox, terminal titles changed to an ugly one? ;) cheers, chris. It is not ugly for me, but some char like , : are not displayed correctly on Firefox. Not sure if this is

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-24 Thread EatDirt
On 23/09/12 14:28, brian.sm...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I noticed the change... but on my machine it looks like an improvement I don't know if just my eyesight or the change is having different effects on different set ups. I'm using X86-64 with a Radeon graphics card On 24/09/12 08:31,

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-24 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 11:30:49 +0200 eatdirt dirt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, is that a bug that all default fonts on kdm, firefox, terminal titles changed to an ugly one? ;) I noticed the change too on my system - Mageia 3/Cauldron x86-64 , KDE 4.9.1, Core i3 machine. Regards, Shlomi

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-24 Thread Dimitri
Hi guys, The changes in default fonts might be related to recent fonts-ttf-liberation update. Since 2.00, this package ships fontconfig settings that by default substitute Liberation fonts for sans-serif, serif and mono families. This is done by /etc/fonts/conf.d/59-liberation-*.conf files (in

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-24 Thread EatDirt
On 24/09/12 14:58, Dimitri wrote: Hi guys, The changes in default fonts might be related to recent fonts-ttf-liberation update. Since 2.00, this package ships fontconfig settings that by default substitute Liberation fonts for sans-serif, serif and mono families. This is done by

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 15:57 +0200, EatDirt wrote: I think we should pay attention to the default fonts we will choose for mga3, indeed. That's the very first reflex of any user, either you like, or you don't, that would even deserve a contest may be. Reaction to typefaces depends on several

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 18:34 +0100, brian.sm...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I assume any default font should have the complete UTF8 Character set? This isn't really meaningful, because of unification - fonts implement glyphs, not characters, and there are a great many Unicode characters that

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-24 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-09-24 16:58 (GMT+0400) Dimitri composed: The changes in default fonts might be related to recent fonts-ttf-liberation update. Since 2.00, this package ships fontconfig settings that by default substitute Liberation fonts for sans-serif, serif and mono families. This is done by

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-24 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-09-24 13:21 (GMT-0400) Liam R E Quin composed: . rendering quality - irregularities tend to be distracting and cause fatigue but people often say they like them at first; Rendering quality is highly influenced by screen pixel density. The higher the density, the more pixels are

[Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-23 Thread eatdirt
Hi, is that a bug that all default fonts on kdm, firefox, terminal titles changed to an ugly one? ;) cheers, chris.

Re: [Mageia-dev] new fonts?

2012-09-23 Thread brian . smith
On Sunday 23 Sep 2012 11:30:49 eatdirt wrote: Hi, is that a bug that all default fonts on kdm, firefox, terminal titles changed to an ugly one? ;) cheers, chris. I noticed the change... but on my machine it looks like an improvement :-) I don't know if just my eyesight or the change is