http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4449
------- Additional Comments From ivg2@cornell.edu 2006-08-02 23:44 ------- An application wouldn't make that choice unless Tahoma was shipped by default on Windows systems. Since Wine attempts to emulate a Windows system, it should also provide this font.
Anyway, thinking like an engineer is the wrong thing to do. Put yourself in the end user's (mine) shoes. As far as I can see my application doesn't work. I don't care why it doesn't work, I just want it to behave similarly as it does on Windows (which I think is a Wine goal).
By the way, there's nothing to tell me that missing fonts are causing the problem. There's no warning - all I see is the font-less dialog box. Furthermore putting the Tahoma font in the Linux fonts folders does not work, and the overrides trick someone else suggested doesn't work either. That seems to indicate a bug (I do expect Wine to find my Linux fonts like other applications do).