On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 8:57 AM, Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone actually take care of our fonts stuff anymore?
Off the top of my head, there's Akira Tagoh covering fontconfig both
upstream and downstream, Marek Kasik covering freetype downstream, and
Nikolaus Waxweiler handling freetype upstream, Cantarell upstream, and
the GNOME settings.
It seems unlikely to me that any downstream customizations would be
accepted directly into Fedora, since we try to stick very close to
upstream defaults. So please, send any desired improvements upstream.
For example, the gschema changes should go to the gnome-settings-daemon
project, where it is probably going to run up against the fact that (I
believe) Nikolaus prefers grayscale hinting. I'm sure he'd be happy to
provide a rationale for why rgba is not default. Then the fontconfig
changes should be submitted to the fontconfig project. The author of
the changes should again be prepared to argue why the changes should
become defaults. I don't see why upstream would reject the changes if
they are good.
At the end of the day, font settings are highly subjective, so I'm
pretty skeptical of anything called "fedora-enhanced-defaults" or
"fedora-better-fonts". They don't look any better or worse to me. They
just look different. So I'm inclined to trust the expertise of the
people maintaining the font packages, who've probably not set the
defaults as they are arbitrarily....
Michael