Hello,
As Wine co-maintainer I would like to open a discussion on the fonts that Wine includes. For those that do not know Wine[1] is a set of libraries that allows Windows executables to run under a Linux environment.
Wine includes several fonts in order to provide support that Windows programs expect to exist. Packages include: - wine-arial-fonts - wine-courier-fonts - wine-fixedsys-fonts - wine-marlett-fonts - wine-ms-sans-serif - wine-small-fonts - wine-symbol-fonts - wine-system-fonts - wine-tahoma-fonts - wine-tahoma-fonts-system - wine-wingdings-fonts
These packages (exception of wine-tahoma-fonts) install fonts to /usr/share/fonts and affect rendering in applications that call upon these fonts. Users have complained[2][3] of rendering using these fonts. I do not experience poor rendering with these fonts so it is hard for me to sympathize, but I hate having open bugs that go unanswered.
Can the Fedora Font SIG provide guidance? Should Wine be installing to /usr/share/fonts?
Thanks, Michael
[1] https://www.winehq.org/ [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693180 [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039763
Hi,
If those fonts isn't supposed to be used outside Wine, I think you don't need to install them under /usr/share/fonts. This exception is applied to texlive say.
--- Akira TAGOH
----- Original Message ----- | Hello, | | As Wine co-maintainer I would like to open a discussion on the fonts that | Wine | includes. For those that do not know Wine[1] is a set of libraries that | allows | Windows executables to run under a Linux environment. | | Wine includes several fonts in order to provide support that Windows programs | expect to exist. Packages include: | - wine-arial-fonts | - wine-courier-fonts | - wine-fixedsys-fonts | - wine-marlett-fonts | - wine-ms-sans-serif | - wine-small-fonts | - wine-symbol-fonts | - wine-system-fonts | - wine-tahoma-fonts | - wine-tahoma-fonts-system | - wine-wingdings-fonts | | These packages (exception of wine-tahoma-fonts) install fonts to | /usr/share/fonts and affect rendering in applications that call upon these | fonts. Users have complained[2][3] of rendering using these fonts. I do not | experience poor rendering with these fonts so it is hard for me to | sympathize, | but I hate having open bugs that go unanswered. | | Can the Fedora Font SIG provide guidance? Should Wine be installing to | /usr/share/fonts? | | Thanks, | Michael | | [1] https://www.winehq.org/ | [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693180 | [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039763 | | _______________________________________________ | fonts mailing list | fonts@lists.fedoraproject.org | https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts | http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
On 08/14/2014 10:34 PM, Akira TAGOH wrote:
If those fonts isn't supposed to be used outside Wine, I think you don't need to install them under /usr/share/fonts. This exception is applied to texlive say.
Thanks, Akira. Wine is expected to be the only user of these fonts.
I will change the font packages to not install to the system directory.
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Akira TAGOH -
Michael Cronenworth