| Summary: | media-fonts/ubuntu-font-family request not to remove Medium fonts | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | c4pp4 <c4pp4> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Fonts Team <fonts> |
| Status: | UNCONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | c4pp4, parona |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: |
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370851 https://launchpad.net/bugs/744812 https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-25814 https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-27301 https://launchpad.net/bugs/730912 |
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
c4pp4
2025-04-27 22:32:25 UTC
Had to look at the old history to find the rationale as there was no comment. > Don't install medium weight fonts as they look too bold in Qt, bug 370851. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/archive/repo/gentoo-2.git/commit/?id=3edb322306c7733fbb0cd762bf634a4d80dc202b (In reply to Alfred Wingate from comment #1) > Had to look at the old history to find the rationale as there was no comment. > > > Don't install medium weight fonts as they look too bold in Qt, bug 370851. > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/archive/repo/gentoo-2.git/commit/ > ?id=3edb322306c7733fbb0cd762bf634a4d80dc202b Would you add a USE flag to install medium fonts? Anyway I think it was fixed: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/118666524/ubuntu-font-family-sources_0.80-0ubuntu4_0.80-0ubuntu5.diff.gz Changelog ubuntu-font-family-sources (0.80-0ubuntu5) quantal; urgency=low [ Timo Jyrinki ] * Add modified Ubuntu-M.ttf binary (LP: #1054204) * Restore installing Ubuntu-M* (LP: #1048600) [ Iain Lane ] * Modify Ubuntu-MI.ttf in the same way (set "Family Name"), otherwise Ubuntu Medium Italic gets selected for Ubuntu Light Italic in LO. -- Iain Lane <iain@orangesquash.org.uk> Sat, 06 Oct 2012 13:20:49 +0100 |