FFE: Setting Ubuntu Font As Default

[Scott Ritchie]

On 09/30/2010 12:06 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Thursday, September 30, 2010 02:14:03 pm Rick Spencer wrote:
>> Hi all ...
>>
>> I want to bring this FFE to attention:
>> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/649616
>>
>> It is my understanding that using the Ubuntu font by default has been
>> the plan of record for some weeks or months. None the less, given the
>> time lines involved, I thought it best to raise wider awareness that we
>> are preparing this change as it is after even RC Freeze.
>>
>> The change will set the Ubuntu font to be the default in the UI, but not
>> for documents or monospace. Please note that the FFE has not yet been
>> accepted.
>>
>> Cheers, Rick
> 
> It was also the plan of record to have the font in the archive about a month 
> earlier than we actually got it.  
> 
> Scott K
> 

Agreed.  Don't do it.

We have these policies because they're good software engineering
practice.  It matters that, for instance, the screenshots in the
documentation actually look like the operating system.

Scott Ritchie