Re: [Nautilus-list] fonts on sidebar's tabs problem solved

[Ramiro Estrugo <ramiro eazel com>]

Vlad Harchev wrote:
> 
>  Hi,
> 
>  Recently several translators (including me) complained that Nau-1.0 uses
> incorrect fonts for text on tabs of sidebar and as names of
> emblems/colors/patterns.
>  It turns out that it's enough to remove urw fonts shipped with Nau (in
> /usr/share/nautilus/fonts/urw) - it seems that Nau begins to search for fonts
> in X fontpath and begins to use it. When I remove
> /usr/share/nautilus/fonts/urw on my box,  all russian text in all places
> displays nicely without any flaws, independant of the state of 'enable smooth
> graphics' checkbox; when smooth graphics is enabled, the text really gets
> antialiased.
>  So, it seems all Nau distributors should remove urw fonts from nautilus rpms
> if the distro the rpms are built for already ships Type1 fonts.. Other option
> is scanning for fonts with locale-specific encoding first, and if not found,
> use urw fonts shipped with Nau.
> 
>  Best regards,
>   -Vlad
> 

This is all true of 1.0.

Already in the CVS HEAD of Nautilus this works much better.  We use the
font server's configuration to populate the font choices.

Can you elaborate a bit on how "scanning for fonts with locale-specific
encoding first" should work ?

-re