Changing the default font in Fedora Core 6

Rodd Clarkson rodd at clarkson.id.au
Fri Jun 30 03:35:55 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 03:18 +0100, Dimitris Glezos wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> Having read the thread that was active 2+ weeks ago "Changing the 
> default font in Fedora Core 6" [1], I think that it's obvious that the 
> Best Thing™ would be to include DejaVu in Core as soon as possible.
> 
> Translators work hard for translating

<snip>

> this decision is considered a no-brainer, we 
> are still talking about it.
> 
> Thanks to Nicolas Mailhot, a package already exists in extras-devel, so 
> most of the work is already done. Now, the only thing that remains (as I 
> see it) is a Core maintainer to step forward.

I don't use any language but English and I couldn't agree more.

I tried DejaVu from extras and it's head and shoulders above Bitstream
Vera.  I really love the 'narrow' fonts and everything is just more
readable and crisp.


R.
-- 
"It's a fine line between denial and faith.
 It's much better on my side"




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