[Bug 11880] New: Wine should do something smarter when it can' t find the requested font (for Steam)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11880

Summary: Wine should do something smarter when it can't find the
                    requested font (for Steam)
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.56.
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: fonts
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

wine seems to have come along way, especially for running steam and steam
games.

but it seems silly that the first problem everyone comes across trying to run
steam with a fresh wine is that no fonts appear.

this is because steam asks for tahoma.ttf and that isn't on most linux
installations. So steam starts up with blanks where words should be.

you only have to google to realise the workaround.

but it would make wine alot cooler if it simply used a different font that was
available on the system instead of tahoma.

then many linux users wouldn't hit this first obstacle when trying to run steam