Le vendredi 16 mars 2018 à 09:43 +0000, Nikolaus Waxweiler a écrit : > It is my upstream opinion that the entire free desktop landscape > should use Noto Sans/Serif (UI) as the default (fallback) font for > everything and not ship anything else in a base system, except DejaVu > Mono because Noto Mono has only a regular face. And you have your answer DejaVu Mono is way more advanced and complete than the alternatives Users prefer sans and sans mono to be synchronized The original decision to use Cantarell in Workstation was GNOME's desire to distinguish itself from a DejaVu design “everyone had already seen” (so a more technically deficient font for many locales for NIH reasons), and “more coverage would come later”, but now everyone has seen Cantarell, it’s old and tired too, its coverage is not progressing but regressing, so maybe it’s time to put back as default a font with decent i18n coverage instead of making it “different is better” for a few blessed locales and a pit of font substitutions for the majority of other locales? There's no excuse in 2018 to default to a font without Greek or Cyrillic (there was almost no excuse when GNOME dumped Cantarell on us, DejaVu and other FLOSS font had already set the new bar to attain). Other parts of Unicode are hard and lack of coverage is still acceptable to users, but Greek and Cyrillic? They should be a solved problem today. If you can't do them in your default font, don't pretend being an i18n project. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
