Bug 17263

Summary:	Change default order of latin fonts
Product:	fontconfig	Reporter:	Frederic Crozat <fred>
Component:	conf	Assignee:	fontconfig-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Behdad Esfahbod <freedesktop>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	akira, freedesktop, leio, pachoramos1
Version:	2.6
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	tweak font order

Description Frederic Crozat 2008-08-22 10:00:13 UTC

Created attachment 18468 [details] [review]
tweak font order

This is an open topic (we've discussed it shortly with Bedhad on irc) :

-shouldn't DejaVu fonts be favored over Bitstream Vera fonts (since there has not been any vera release for a while, unlike dejavu)

- should Luxi and Nimbus be favored over Arial / Verdana / Albany AMT ? 

I don't have strong opinion for the second question (for the first one, it would seem logic to favor DejaVu but I feel free to prove me wrong).

I'm attaching mandriva patch we use for this.

Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2008-08-22 15:14:14 UTC

Leaving this one for Keith.

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2009-03-08 04:04:35 UTC

Any news on this? Thanks

Comment 3 Akira TAGOH 2012-02-20 19:10:34 UTC

I'd personally recommend to have own config to change this kind of the order, because it's really hard to have the perfect config making comfortable for everyone. I'll take an action for that only when it badly affects the config shipped externally.

Comment 4 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-20 21:44:49 UTC

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