Installing Wine's fonts system-wide: which ones are worthwhile?
After being partially inspired by Ubuntu brainstorm, it occurred to me that some of our fonts would be useful everywhere, but the current Wine package keeps its fonts to itself. Tahoma, for instance, could be useful if someone tries to open a Word document in Open Office. The solution varies across distributions, however in Ubuntu and Debian's case it means naming the fonts specifically and creating a hints file. So, which ones should be installed this way? Thanks, Scott Ritchie
Scott Ritchie wrote:
After being partially inspired by Ubuntu brainstorm, it occurred to me that some of our fonts would be useful everywhere, but the current Wine package keeps its fonts to itself. Tahoma, for instance, could be useful if someone tries to open a Word document in Open Office.
The solution varies across distributions, however in Ubuntu and Debian's case it means naming the fonts specifically and creating a hints file.
So, which ones should be installed this way?
It used to make some difference, but lately with the Liberation fonts, it doesn't any more. If you insist, just dropping the fonts into ${HOME}/.fonts for a per-user basis (all applications of this user), or /usr/share/fonts or thereabouts for truly system-wise installation. I don't think you need to name the fonts specially or doing anything with hints or whatever. Sym-links also work, I believe.
Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
Scott Ritchie wrote:
After being partially inspired by Ubuntu brainstorm, it occurred to me that some of our fonts would be useful everywhere, but the current Wine package keeps its fonts to itself. Tahoma, for instance, could be useful if someone tries to open a Word document in Open Office.
The solution varies across distributions, however in Ubuntu and Debian's case it means naming the fonts specifically and creating a hints file.
So, which ones should be installed this way?
It used to make some difference, but lately with the Liberation fonts, it doesn't any more.
If you insist, just dropping the fonts into ${HOME}/.fonts for a per-user basis (all applications of this user), or /usr/share/fonts or thereabouts for truly system-wise installation. I don't think you need to name the fonts specially or doing anything with hints or whatever. Sym-links also work, I believe.
Liberation fonts doesn't include Tahoma, however. On Ubuntu, the liberation fonts also not installed by default. Which brings up a related question: should the Wine package depend on them? It seems like having liberation fonts available would be helpful to Wine, and therefore they should be installed when Wine is. On Debian systems, font packages are also supposed to have special configuration files so they can be handled properly by the font manager. I'll write these, but the point is it's not quite as simple as changing the install path to do it correctly. Regardless, there's still the question of which Wine fonts to do this with. Just Tahoma? Or more? Thanks, Scott Ritchie
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Scott Ritchie wrote: [...]
On Ubuntu, the liberation fonts also not installed by default. Which brings up a related question: should the Wine package depend on them? It seems like having liberation fonts available would be helpful to Wine, and therefore they should be installed when Wine is.
Depend or Recommend: I don't think so. Maybe suggest though. -- Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ $live{free} || die "";
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