On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 11:23 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Jared K. Smith (jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > I know that Gnome is using Cantarell as its default font, and it seems > > that something has changed in Fedora to make Cantarell the default > > font for all desktops. I heard from the KDE SIG this morning that > > there is some confusion as to whether that was intended to be a global > > change, or a change only for the Gnome desktop. > > > > I don't pretend to have a clue when it comes to fonts or the > > fontconfig stuff -- but I'd like to kick off this discussion so that > > there is less confusion and that nobody tries to ascribe to malice > > that which can be explained by miscommunication. Is there someone > > that understands the change that can fill me in on the missing > > details? > > If it has become the default font for all desktops, it's likely due > to it becoming the default mapping for Sans in fontconfig. (Whether that > was intentional, I don't know.) > Not intentional, afaik. The plan is to set the dconf keys used by gnome for fonts to 'Cantarell' explicitly, so we don't have to rely on the 'Sans' alias. For a while, the Adwaita theme was hardcoding the font to Cantarell, too. But we've since decided to use drop that and use the dconf key. The culprit might be /etc/fonts/conf.d/57-cantarell.conf. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about fontconfig syntax to figure that out on the spot... -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
