Noto fonts default in lunar instead of DejaVu

Gunnar Hjalmarsson gunnarhj at ubuntu.com
Mon Jan 30 16:45:39 UTC 2023


On 2023-01-30 17:21, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 10:45 AM Gunnar Hjalmarsson
> <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> For a standard Ubuntu installation in some European language this
>> does not make a difference, since the fonts-noto-core package is
>> not included in the desktop ISO. But as soon as you install
>> fonts-noto-core — for whatever reason — the default font for e.g.
>> web browsing will change to Noto.
> 
> Could we still default to the Ubuntu font and fall back to the Noto
> family for scripts that the Ubuntu font doesn't handle?

My understanding is that we only use the Ubuntu font for the desktop. 
It's set in this file:

/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/10_ubuntu-settings.gschema.override

And that setting overrides fontconfig, so this new fontconfig preference 
won't change the default font used for the desktop.

As far as I know the Ubuntu font has never been used (by default) for 
web browsing. DejaVu has.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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