Re: Shipping Vera with 2.4

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="Havoc Pennington">
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> > It will suck completely - it breaks i18n among other things because Vera
> > isn't suitable for all languages. But also it means gnome apps and other
> > apps don't have the same default font.
> >
> > The default font is "sans-serif" period, and always will be.  If people
> > want default sans font to be Vera, they need to configure fontconfig as
> > such. fontconfig could come that way out of the box, that might be nice.
> >    
>
> So this is another "unsolvable above the distro level" problem... Great. :)
>  
Well, possibly performing an edit on the sysconfdir/fonts/local.conf 
file during "make install" might be a better idea, then (maybe with a 
configure option to turn this behaviour off?).

James.

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