By the way, the file 30-metric-aliases.conf breaks font selection on all web pages containing font selectors like this:
font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; in the case where Helvetica is NOT installed, while Arial IS installed. In css the font names are prioritized, and if the first isn't installed, the second should be chosen, and so on. So the web page should display in Arial, instead it displays in Nimbus Sans L. Because when the browser requests helvetica from fontconfig it should be denied and try the next option (Arial), instead it gets Nimbus Sans L and never gets to test for Arial. This problem exists in several browsers. I'm not sure whose responsibility this is, browser or fontconfig. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fontconfig in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1333627 Title: update broke fonts in firefox Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I have Ubuntu Studio 14.04. The updates window popped up and asked me to install updates. Which I did. This somehow broke my font configuration. So that I have blurry fonts in firefox. No other application is affected. I have modified nothing in /etc/fonts/conf.avail. If updates changes the contents of /etc/fonts/conf.d I do not see the purpose of having a conf.avail/conf.d - organization. The purpose must be to let users link or unlink files in conf.d to files in conf.avail. I don't expect updates to create links in /etc/fonts/conf.d that were previously created at installation time or upgrate time. So if I unlink something in /etc/fonts/conf.d I expect it to stay that way. Changes to the files themselves should go in /etc/fonts/conf.avail. Changes to which files are available by default in /etc/fonts/conf.d should be applied only when they are CHANGES. Not reinstall the default links with every update. lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Release: 14.04 ~$ apt-cache policy fontconfig fontconfig: Installed: 2.11.0-0ubuntu4.1 Candidate: 2.11.0-0ubuntu4.1 Version table: *** 2.11.0-0ubuntu4.1 0 500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.11.0-0ubuntu4 0 500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/1333627/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
