On Sat, 2025-06-07 at 14:45 +0100, Aoife Moloney via devel-announce wrote: > Wiki - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SubstituteSansForMono > Discussion thread - > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f43-change-proposal-substitute-sans-for-mono-self-contained/155255 > > This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux. > This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes > process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive > community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if > approved > by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. > > > > == Summary == > Currently monospace fonts are implicitly substituted with sans-serif > fonts by default configuration file in fontconfig if missing. > However, > this is unpredictable behavior and it just happened to work. this > behavior might be changed once one install other font packages. > This Change aims to make it predictable and assign a tentative > default > monospace font for languages which is missing them. > The title seems a bit misleading? I did a double take reading it ... may I suggest something like "Set default monospace fallback font"?
Since the actual effect is preventing Mono => Sans while a quick reading of the title might suggest the opposite. Overall, I am in favor, though a bit on the fence about whether this is self contained or not, similar to what Peter noted above. Best regards, -- _o) Michel Lind _( ) identities: https://keyoxide.org/5dce2e7e9c3b1cffd335c1d78b229d2f7ccc04f2 README: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Salimma#README -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
