Font changes, please watch out for b0rkage

Scott angrykeyboarder at angrykeyboarder.com
Tue Dec 20 08:47:18 GMT 2005


Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've uploaded a change to fontconfig that puts DejaVu immediately after Vera
> in the fallback priority lists. DejaVu is a derivative of Vera that provides
> better coverage of various character sets. Install the ttf-dejavu package to
> try it out immediately - Colin will add it to the Desktop Seed on Monday, so
> you will end up getting it anyway.

DejaVu is the default font in Kubuntu and ever since it's became that, 
I've thought it should be in Ubuntu as well.  It seems (IMHO) to have a 
bit more "style" than Vera. I switch my settings in GNOME to DejaVu 
right off the bat.


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