Bug 208990

Summary:	media-fonts/urw-fonts-2.3.6 - Nimbus Sans looks strange
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christian Speckner <cnspeckn>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Fonts Team <fonts>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	sam, sir.suriv
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	urw-fonts-2.1-r2 urw-fonts-2.4.6

Description Christian Speckner 2008-02-05 11:51:45 UTC

After the last update, I noticed my desktop looked different. After some poking around I found that with urw-fonts-2.3.6, nimbus sans appears to have some additional space above every character making it look strange. Reverting back to urw-fonts-2.1-r2 cured the problem.

I'm not sure if this warrants a bug report, but since the upgrade makes anything using the font look really different, a ewarn about this would possibly be OK.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-05 12:34:58 UTC

Can you attach some screenshots perhaps?

Comment 2 Christian Speckner 2008-02-05 23:42:11 UTC

Created attachment 142757 [details]
urw-fonts-2.1-r2

Comment 3 Christian Speckner 2008-02-05 23:43:25 UTC

Created attachment 142759 [details]
urw-fonts-2.4.6

Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-05 23:46:22 UTC

Reopen or noone will notice again.

Comment 5 Christian Speckner 2008-02-05 23:50:33 UTC

OK, I attached two screenshots. Apart from urw-fonts (and windows focus) there is no difference between them. Please observe the window decorations that get enlarged due to the additional space.

Comment 6 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-21 06:03:45 UTC

Thank you for report Christian. I've added elog message in media-fonts/urw-fonts-2.3.6. FIXED.

Comment 7 Diogo Pereira 2018-07-13 23:25:05 UTC

Given that urw-fonts-2.1-r2 was removed from the tree nearly 9 years ago, I think it would be a good idea to remove the elog and stop pointing users at this ancient and by now irrelevant bug.