Font changes / Cantarell

[Bill Nottingham]

Jared K. Smith (jsmith at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> I know that Gnome is using Cantarell as its default font, and it seems
> that something has changed in Fedora to make Cantarell the default
> font for all desktops.  I heard from the KDE SIG this morning that
> there is some confusion as to whether that was intended to be a global
> change, or a change only for the Gnome desktop.
> 
> I don't pretend to have a clue when it comes to fonts or the
> fontconfig stuff -- but I'd like to kick off this discussion so that
> there is less confusion and that nobody tries to ascribe to malice
> that which can be explained by miscommunication.   Is there someone
> that understands the change that can fill me in on the missing
> details?

If it has become the default font for all desktops, it's likely due
to it becoming the default mapping for Sans in fontconfig. (Whether that
was intentional, I don't know.)

Bill