We can concentrate on executing the rest of the to-do list above and
ensuring that the font family .deb package is available and in the right
places to be seeded into the CD images. This is virtually all tediously
technical and procedural; eg. tweaking the advertised font name,
version, license, display name, crossing tees and dotting eyes.
With the proviso of having got the pieces into place first, the
possibility and policy decision of /whether/ to ship as the user-
interface default typeface for {Ubuntu,Kubuntu,both} themes can be left
until closer to the ship date. Even if an end-decision were to be to
just ship on the CDs, this gets UFF out to the wider audience. I think
it's been mostly resolved elsewhere that the candidate versions will
ship with a minor release number (not be metrics stable); so any
decision is coming down to just the user-interface choice question for
the moment---I don't think we should run the risk of going with document
font defaults (eg. the hinting/layout issues that need researching more
for OpenOffice.org).
To allay the fears about ("only"!) having ~1,200 codepoints covered with
glyphs at the moment, glyph substitution will fall back to other fonts
just as it does today (in particular to Deja), so scripts not covered
specifically by the Ubuntu Font Family will display much as they do
already. It's perhaps easier to think of it as the Ubuntu Font Family
"overriding" the $default rendering /when/ UFF has the coverage
available.
Thank you to Alan, Bruno G, et al for working through and double-
checking that the substitution is working as expected. There will be a
need to do some similar testing shortly, in order to work out
technically how to deploy UFF as user-interface default (when/if
needed)---the two suggested methods either being an explicit reference
to "family=Ubuntu" or the Themes, or by providing an alias for 'Sans'.
If you've still got a handle on things, this would be a good next step.
For Kubuntu there are also going to be points 14a./14b. for whether or
not the Kubuntu themes would switch to a default user-interface default
of Ubuntu in the same timeframe window. I have mailed the Kubuntu
council members collectively and it is on their Agenda for future
meetings up to the release date:
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Meetings
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MIR+FFE: Inclusion of Ubuntu Font Family ~0.7 in Maverick (10.10)
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