[Bug 10952] Wine prefers Marlett instead of a legible font

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Sat Dec 29 18:54:30 CST 2007


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10952


Ove Kaaven <ovek at arcticnet.no> changed:

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           Severity|enhancement                 |major




--- Comment #2 from Ove Kaaven <ovek at arcticnet.no>  2007-12-29 18:54:29 ---
That's not helpful. This is a regression that affects the usability of Wine on
a free system, and is it not the idea of Wine to be free? I seem to recall
something about Wine switching to LGPL for such reasons. (It may or may not be
a regression in Wine per se, but it's definitely a regression seriously
impairing a fundamental part of Wine, something that is supposed to have worked
for years. Which is certainly a major problem. Not a "wishlist item".)

And if you uninstalled Arial from Windows, do you really think Windows would
substitute with Marlett instead of, say, Tahoma, or MS Sans Serif, or Bitstream
Vera (if you've got that; I do), or whatever else that's at least in a
non-symbol character set? What if Microsoft Word opened a document written with
the "Dragonmaster" font, and the user didn't have it, would Windows choose
Marlett then, or would it prefer a non-symbol font? So, what's better, fixing a
deficiency in Wine's font selection algorithm (or maybe in the font itself, if
the "this is a symbol font" information is lost, or in fontforge) so that
there's a sensible fallback (or maybe even adding font alias configuration to
winecfg), or considering an entire, popular distro unsupported, for absolutely
no good reason?

(And yeah, I've tried to defend msttcorefonts, but you should have seen the
other people's arguments - they say that Wine should remain supported in Debian
even without those fonts, because it can still be used to run free Windows
applications that aren't written to depend on proprietary fonts, and
whatnot...)


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