Re: Liberation

[Louis Lenders]

Hans Leidekker <hans <at> it.vu.nl> writes:
> On Friday 15 June 2007 12:14:06 Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
> > Why do you need to copy the fonts? Wine can use the system fonts. The 
> > Wine package would need to have only a dependency on the liberation font 
> > package. The liberation-fonts rpm is already in Fedora Extras for FC6 
> > and in Fedora 7.
>
> That doesn't help when an app asks for Arial. Or when it references
> the file c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf directly.
>
> -Hans

So could something be included in wine's source like detect if they are present
(/usr/share/fonts/liberation/ here), use Hans' convert-script to "convert" it
into  arial.ttf, and then copy them into /usr/share/wine/fonts/, i think that
would be enough for apps to detect the font, right?