The point behind this is to use a condensed font for latin characters which are shown on the desktop and interface (not in documents or inside app windows).
Apparently the best idea would be to remove the messed up Cyrillic, Asian fonts which do not work anyway (making Sans default to a decent font for those languages). Best of all would be the ability to set a condensed style for UI elements only and remove the poor quality font elements from deja vu so that languages needing those default to another font. -- Please use DejaVu Sans Condensed as the default font https://launchpad.net/bugs/81608 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
