Bug 130466 – Make DejaVu fonts the default in media-libs/fontconfig 60-latin.conf

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Patrick Guimond 2006-04-19 05:41:27 UTC]

The current fontconfig default for fonts is `Bitstream Vera'. This font set isn't developped anymore but forks of the project are currently improving and adding support for more languages.

The `DejaVu' project development seems to be quite active and provides support for more languages than the base Bitstream Vera fonts. This is a proposal for making DejaVu the default font set in Gentoo Linux.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-04-19 06:09:52 UTC]

No.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129117 ***

[Comment 2 Mart Raudsepp 2008-09-11 12:03:02 UTC]

This is not a duplicate of 129117, reopening.
Please consider making fontconfig default to DeJavu when both that and bitstream-vera are available by changing the order in 60-latin.conf conf.avail file.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with what font package is being pulled in by xorg-x11, and everything to do with a sane default when both are installed - with or without them being pulled in, as the user should get a better default no matter if they were pulled in by something, or if he/she emerged both him/herself.

[Comment 3 Mart Raudsepp 2008-09-11 12:04:55 UTC]

Might also want to consider enabling 57-dejavu.conf by default, not sure (I haven't done so yet)

[Comment 4 Mart Raudsepp 2008-09-11 12:34:40 UTC]

Upstream bug exists for the consideration of order adjustment, adding to URL field.

[Comment 5 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2008-09-11 19:31:42 UTC]

I guess this is up to the fonts team. 

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2008-09-12 11:14:07 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Might also want to consider enabling 57-dejavu.conf by default, not sure (I
> haven't done so yet)
> 

At least for me, I see much better fonts in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ with 57-dejavu.conf enabled than disabled (I am using media-fonts/dejavu-2.21)

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2009-01-25 09:03:55 UTC]

Any new here? I am using dejavu since months (with 57-dejavu.conf enabled) in four machines without any problems. I have bitstream-vera uninstalled (I am using package.provided until bug 129117 is fixed) and all work ok (or, in some websites, I now get better fonts than before with bitstream). Also, distributions like fedora or mandriva are defaulting to dejavu since a lot of time without problems.

Thanks a lot

[Comment 8 Mart Raudsepp 2009-07-03 07:16:46 UTC]

ping

[Comment 9 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) 2009-07-12 04:15:47 UTC]

Fixed in 2.7.0

[Comment 10 Pacho Ramos 2009-07-12 13:49:13 UTC]

Thanks a lot :-)

[Comment 11 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) 2015-04-18 12:47:06 UTC]

Made media-fonts/liberation-fonts the default in fontconfig-2.11.93.

[Comment 12 Nicole O'Connor 2015-04-23 22:18:25 UTC]

(In reply to Ben de Groot from comment #11)
> Made media-fonts/liberation-fonts the default in fontconfig-2.11.93.

I'm not saying they're ugly, but this seems rather sudden, and I'd like to know why.

[Comment 13 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) 2015-04-25 14:49:27 UTC]

(In reply to Nicholas O'Connor from comment #12)
> (In reply to Ben de Groot from comment #11)
> > Made media-fonts/liberation-fonts the default in fontconfig-2.11.93.
> 
> I'm not saying they're ugly, but this seems rather sudden, and I'd like to
> know why.

It's not all that sudden. It's the official recommendation of the new fonts team, and they have the same metrics (and are therefore good replacements of) the ubiquitous Times/Arial/Courier font families.