The mapping from Helvetica to Nimbus Sans L is there for a reason: metric compatibility. This means documents set in Helvetica but opened in OpenOffice or any other word processor will still have more or less the same layout. DejaVu Sans is *not* metric compatible, neither with Helvetica, nor with Arial. Therefor a substitution in favor of DejaVu Sans would screw up page layouts for documents set in Helvetica or Arial. Since the fontconfig settings affect all applications on the desktop, this change needs to be very well thought over.
And I can say that I won't endorse that change on system level. If a user wants to do it on his system, fine. But the proper way to do it would be: cat /etc/fonts/conf.avail/30-metric-aliases.conf >> ~/.fonts.conf Then edit ~/.fonts.conf and do the changes there. That way the changes will be preserved during an upgrade of fontconfig. -- firefox font changed to narrower, less readable font https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220568 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
