On 08/03/2010 03:09 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 3 August 2010 21:57, Scott Ritchie <sc...@open-vote.org> wrote: > >> This bug, for instance, prevents Photoshop from working unless there is >> an Arial font installed: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9623 >> Wine doesn't seem to respect system-level fontconfig aliases, so even >> though Liberation Sans is installed on the system Photoshop won't try to >> use it in place of Arial. > > > This is an excellent idea, except that the Liberation fonts are really > horrible. I've *tried* using them for general text use and they make > me want to gouge my eyes out. > > Is there really no reasonable way to detect the system font settings > in GNOME or KDE? And where detection fails, a Wine control panel > perhaps? > > > - d.
Well, if we did use the fontconfig aliases, you'd be seeing the Liberation fonts unless you had the real Arial installed ;) Thanks, Scott Ritchie