On Friday 25 May 2007 19:30:14 Scott Ritchie wrote:
All right, clearly we need to handle this somehow. I'm just thinking that there needs to be a way to install these fonts WITHOUT Wine such that they're available to non-Wine programs, and that when a user has done that Wine should then reference those fonts rather than duplicate them.
Yes, distros should make these fonts available to all applications. I have no doubt they will because the license is right and they make some web pages and Word documents look better.
I was looking beyond that actually, because the license permits us to improve Wine's compatibility even more. By generating modified versions we can make applications work that assume the presence of these fonts and their files.
So yes, there is duplication involved, but it is balanced by being more compatible.
-Hans