Nicolas Mailhot pisze:
Le Mar 9 décembre 2008 15:37, Julian Sikorski a écrit :
If I remember correctly, a while ago you told me that gtk font selector should be working correctly as well. The thing is that it does show "extraordinary" typefaces for let's say DejaVu LGC Sans, but for Arial the list is pretty much busted - please see the screenshot I attached to the Red Hat bug #466678 (mentioned in the first email). Which software could be responsible for this? I suspected fontconfig.
The freely accessible arial you find on the web is an old version that does not declare the same stuff as modern versions. Microsoft does not update it anymore.
Having a way to tell fontconfig "this is an old font with missing modern metadata, here is the info which is missing" so it's treated the same way as modern fonts is the object of the freedesktop bug you've already commented on.
So I picked the right bug after all :) Anyway, I removed the msttcorefonts package and tried copying over arial from my windows install did not help here. Well, I guess you meant that MS does not update arial at all, not just the freely available version.
Julian