Re: Aliases in 2.2.x

[Christopher James Lahey <clahey ximian com>]

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 11:36, Tambet Ingo wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 18:22, Christopher James Lahey wrote:
> > My thought is that we should just let fontconfig deal with it.  I don't
> > completely follow your description, but if fontconfig can deal with
> > Times and map that to Serif, we should let it do that.
> 
> If you ask for a list of installed fonts from fontconfig, it doesn't
> give you these aliases. Gnome print need a font selector with well-known
> aliases in it.
> 
> Although, gnome-print could (should?! :)) use gtk fontselector, which
> has those aliases (from pango).

Regardless of what the font selector lists, you can still get fonts from
documents from other machines that are not in our short list.  For
instance, a .doc file read into abiword wil likely have fonts like
"Times".

Thanks,
   Chris