Bug 7429

Summary:	Relegate Freefonts to the end of the prefer list
Product:	fontconfig	Reporter:	Simos Xenitellis <simos.bugzilla>
Component:	library	Assignee:	Keith Packard <keithp>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	abelcheung
Version:	2_1
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	8100
Attachments:	Patch to relegate freefonts to the end of the <prefer> list.

Description Simos Xenitellis 2006-07-05 02:51:20 UTC

Several distributions use the provided fonts.conf.in in fontconfig.

This file lists Freefonts in the middle of the <prefer> list, over the CJK fonts.
This causes issues in some distributions that don't customize to configuration
file, so it would be good to have it fixed upstream.

Comment 1 Simos Xenitellis 2006-07-05 02:52:39 UTC

Created attachment 6128 [details] [review]
Patch to relegate freefonts to the end of the <prefer> list.

Comment 2 Abel Cheung 2006-08-15 03:04:34 UTC

The font ordering has traditionally been a bad nuisance for many CJK users. Not
only should freefont be moved to the bottom (as it is known to sacrifice font
quality), current default font ordering needs a major overhaul as well.

Comment 3 Simos Xenitellis 2006-08-15 03:31:06 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> The font ordering has traditionally been a bad nuisance for many CJK users. Not
> only should freefont be moved to the bottom (as it is known to sacrifice font
> quality), current default font ordering needs a major overhaul as well.

Agreed.
Moving Freefonts to the bottom of the list is just a short-term solution for
distributions that use the stock fonts.conf supplied by fontconfig.
For example, see the sample fonts.conf files for these distributions,
http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Fonts/fonts_2econf

Comment 4 Keith Packard 2006-09-01 22:09:32 UTC

I've moved the Free families to the very bottom of their respective aliases.
That should discourage their use.

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