On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 14:34 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > 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... It's numbered exactly the same as the dejavu-sans file, which doesn't seem right; they should have ordering to prioritize whichever we prefer. I don't know whether fontconfig prefers aliases earlier or later in the list; I think it's earlier, so we'd want dejavu-sans' config file to be numbered lower than cantarell's. I guess right now they go alphabetically, so 57-cantarell gets read before 57-dejavu. Should be pretty easy to test, anyway. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
