New winetricks: add support for Red Hat's liberation fonts

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Thu May 24 13:22:01 CDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 08:28 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On 5/24/07, Brian Vincent <brian.vincent at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I haven't even looked at that stuff at all, but does Wine have any
> > fonts worth contributing to that cause?  (Marlett?)
> 
> Red Hat's Liberation font is a single-source thing done by a pro, so
> probably not.
> 
> > Is it worth
> > creating a link within winecfg to download and install these somehow?
> > Good fonts can really help the user experience with Wine.
> 
> No, it would be better to have Wine install the fonts by default
> once they are proven useful, I think.
> I added them to winetricks so people could experiment with
> them (slightly) more easily.
> - Dan

I'm pretty sure the proper place for these fonts is as a separate distro
package - perhaps one that Wine can depend on.

If the liberation fonts aren't yet being packed up in Ubuntu, I'll see
about adding a new package for them.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie




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