Matthew Miller (mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said:
> I happened to install Scratch onto a remove VM (on Fedora Infrastructure's
> new private cloud, in fact) where no fonts were installed. It runs, but
> Pango throws warnings about not having anything for 'latin' or 'common' --
> and of course the UI has boxes where the menus and variables should be.
>
> I could require something generic, like 'font(:lang=en)', but that's likely
> to pull in a random decorative font.
>
> I could require some specific font, but that seems wrong. (Particularly
> since if a "better" match for latin or common happen to be installed,
> whatever I said is a requirement will actually be irrelevant.)
>
> Orrr, should I just not worry about this case?
Generally, if you want to run graphical apps, install the @fonts group -
this gives you the preferred default fonts for all of the languages we
support.
If you only care about Latin fonts, just grab dejavu-{sans,serif,mono}-fonts
and be done with it.
Bill
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