[Bug 517789] Droid Sans overrides default Japanese desktop font

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Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo at redhat.com> changed:

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--- Comment #22 from Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo at redhat.com>  2009-09-10 11:31:37 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #19)
> (In reply to comment #13)
> > (In reply to comment #11)
> 
> > > 3. You should also alias back "Droid Sans Japanese" and "Droid Sans Fallback"
> > > to "Droid Sans" now that we are renaming those.
> > 
> > That's a really good idea, I don't know why I didn't before, I probably was
> > just afraid of the whole thing
> 
> BTW we use two different patterns for aliasing right now:
> 
> 1. "use font Y to complete font X" (for a font which is installed bug with
> limited coverage):
> 
>   <alias>
>     <family>X</family>
>     <default>
>       <family>Y</family>
>     </default>
>   </alias>
> 
> 2. "use font Y when asked for font X" (for fonts that may not be installed)
> 
>   <alias binding="same">
>     <family>X</family>
>     <accept>
>       <family>Y</family>
>     </accept>
>   </alias>
> 
> Which pattern is more appropriate for this case?

The latter.


> Also, can we use the same logic to fixup at fontconfig level fonts with bad
> naming metadata (all the stuff that fails WWS and takes ages to be fixed in the
> font files upstream)? For example would the following pattern be something that
> could be generalised? Or do you have objections/better ideas?
> 
>   <match target="scan">
>     <test name="family">
>       <string>Letters Laughing</string>
>     </test>
>     <test name="style">
>       <string>at their Execution</string>
>     </test>
>     <edit name="family">
>       <string>Letters Laughing at their Execution</string>
>     </edit>
>     <edit name="style">
>       <string>Regular</string>
>     </edit>
>   </match>
> 
>   <alias>
>     <family>Letters Laughing at their Execution</family>
>     <default>
>       <family>Fantasy</family>
>     </default>
>   </alias>

This is a good idea, yes.


>   <!-- Not sure at all about this but something is needed for backwards compat
> -->
>   <alias>
>     <family>Letters Laughing</family>
>     <style>at their Execution</family>
>     <default>
>       <family>Letters Laughing at their Execution</family>
>       <style>Regular<style>
>     </default>
>   </alias>  

I wouldn't bother about the style part here.

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