Bug 160

Summary:	When installing Mageia, install fonts-ttf-liberation package automatically for a better readability
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Y.LE_NY <yleny>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Anne Nicolas <ennael1>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	andr55, dglent, dmorganec, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	meta-task	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Y.LE_NY 2011-02-23 22:06:58 CET

Description of problem:

The package fonts-ttf-liberation is not installed automatically by default when installing Mageia.
And it is a problem because fonts-ttf-liberation are the best free fonts to replace commonly used Microsoft Windows Fontsâ.
The Liberation Fonts are intended to be replacements for the three most commonly used fonts on Microsoft systems: Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New.

These font have a better readability than other ttf fonts : bitstream-vera and dejavu

Can you install this package automatically when installing Mageia Linux distribution ?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fonts-ttf-liberation-1.06.0-4.mga1



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Comment 1 D Morgan 2011-02-23 22:08:28 CET

i agree with this bugreport

CC: (none) => dmorganec

Y.LE_NY 2011-02-23 22:58:49 CET

Summary: When installing Mageia, install fonts-ttf-liberation package automatically => When installing Mageia, install fonts-ttf-liberation package automatically for a better readability

D Morgan 2011-02-24 00:07:12 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => ennael1

Comment 2 Ahmad Samir 2011-02-24 01:57:12 CET

I don't agree, I prefer DejaVu fonts. I think a sort of a poll should be conducted and the font preferred by the most users could be the default?

Comment 3 Y.LE_NY 2011-02-24 19:25:57 CET

@Ahmad

Which language do you use by dfault on your Mageia system ?

I think :
1) Liberation fonts must be installed by default on Mageia system.
2) We need to have the same fonts used / configured by default in Mageia system than Mandriva have in 2010.2.

Comment 4 Ahmad Samir 2011-02-24 21:08:22 CET

(In reply to comment #3)
> @Ahmad
> 
> Which language do you use by dfault on your Mageia system ?
> 

English.

> I think :
> 1) Liberation fonts must be installed by default on Mageia system.

Good point, and liberation fonts were usually installed in Mandriva, but were missed in Mageia Alpha1, I think they should be on the ISO's.

> 2) We need to have the same fonts used / configured by default in Mageia system
> than Mandriva have in 2010.2.

The default in Mandriva has always been DejaVu fonts, in all DE's. This is done via the fonts alias system devised by Frederic Corzat, it sort of maps:
Sans to "DejaVu Sans"
Sans Serif to "DejaVu Sans Serif"
Monospace to "DejaVu Sans Mono"

IIUC.

If DejaVu fonts aren't available Liberation fonts are used.

Comment 5 Dimitrios Glentadakis 2011-02-25 20:41:11 CET

I vote for Liberation. The problem it is nt with english but with other languages.
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=48346

At least if they are not the default option to be installed by default in the system as second choice

CC: (none) => dglent

Comment 6 Y.LE_NY 2011-02-25 22:16:00 CET

Maybe a problem with FreeType packaging
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175

Comment 7 Ahmad Samir 2011-02-26 00:07:56 CET

(In reply to comment #6)
> Maybe a problem with FreeType packaging
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175

No it's not. The bytecode interpreter is enabled by default in freetype2 since 2.4, this is an upstream change as the bytecode interpreter patents expired http://freetype.org/patents.html .

I don't think this is related to DejaVu vs. Liberation fonts.

Comment 8 andré blais 2011-03-01 22:38:48 CET

I also prefer deja vu fonts, which I find much more readable.
It makes sense to include liberation, for those who prefer it.
(As well, some applications use liberation by default.)

CC: (none) => andr55

Thierry Vignaud 2011-03-03 17:01:39 CET

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Source RPM: (none) => meta-task

Thierry Vignaud 2011-03-03 18:07:23 CET

Component: Installation => RPM Packages
Assignee: ennael1 => bugsquad

D Morgan 2011-03-08 00:57:55 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => ennael1

Comment 9 Y.LE_NY 2011-04-09 20:12:37 CEST

Done : installed now by default.
Tested on Mageia 1 Beta 1.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

andré blais 2011-10-09 07:31:19 CEST

CC: andre999 => andre999mga