[Fedora-fonts-list] [Bug 355271] Liberation fonts as default serif, sans, mono

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Summary: Liberation fonts as default serif, sans, mono


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=355271





------- Additional Comments From apodtele at ucsd.edu  2007-10-27 18:05 EST -------
Firefox *already* uses Liberation family displaying www.yahoo.com, 
www.cnn.com, bbcnews.com, etc., because fontconfig *already* aliases Times New 
Roman, Arial, and Courier to Liberation family 
(/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-aliases-fedora.conf).

So, I am guessing, konqueror is happy to find sans-serif in css, even though 
arial is the first choice there. Firefox attempts to find arial first, trusts 
fontconfig to do so, and succeeds.

I don't know which is best approach, but Firefox now looks so much better than 
konqueror.

As far as unicode coverage goes. Liberation family covers 654 glyphs including 
basic and extended latin, greek, and cyrillic. This is indeed less than ~1500 
in standard MS fonts or DejaVu, but pretty good. 

Maybe, it is too early to switch konqueror to Liberation family by default, 
but I will keep my own new settings. I hope that the availability of these 
MS-metric-compatible fonts will be reflected in the release notes of the 
fedora-kde spin or something.

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