Changing the default font in Fedora Core 6

[Rex Dieter]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Le lundi 12 juin 2006 à 04:04 +0930, n0dalus a écrit :

>> What attempts are being made to improve the current fonts upstream?
> 
> None that I am aware of (apart from rumors). You can check on
> http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ Vera was last updated three years ago.
> 
> And it's not because its bug-free or complete - you can compare on
> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/index.htm the coverage of
> Vera with that of its derivatives (DejaVu for example).
> 
> This is one reason why changing the default font to one which has an
> active (and reactive) upstream you can report problems to is a Good
> Thing™

Bitstream-vera is essentially unmaintained, deja-vu *is*.  I think it's a
no-brainer.  deja-vu is the way to go, +1.

-- Rex