http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16325
--- Comment #147 from Aric Stewart aric@codeweavers.com 2012-02-07 07:23:33 CST ---
Ok, I have submitted a patch that places wine auto generated SystemLinks into its own volatile registry key which is regenerated on every run. Then in the fallback chain for looking up glyphs the normal SystemLink key is added first followed by this auto generated one.
The upshot of this is, if the user setups their own link they will continue to be respected and NOT changed on locale changes.
Additionally since the auto generated ones are being regenerated on every run of the wineserver it will automatically pick up on new font installations and replacements.
This will allow the user to install new fonts or setup new replacements and have it just work.
What we need is to add a tab to winecfg to make setting up font replacements to be much easier for the user. I will chat with Alexandre about that today since it would add more strings and that is one of the things that he is opposed to during the code freeze.
But if nothing else it should work dramatically better with this patch.