Hello all
I am sorry for re-posting, but I made the following post last month and got no reply :(
> Hi all
> My name is Mohammed Isam. I designed some fonts [few traditional Arabic
fonts] that I would
> like to package for Fedora. I would appreciate your
help and reviewing my package and helping
> with the packaging process. I
added a wiki page for the fonts https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Layla_fonts, also I submitted a bugzilla review request #1079090.> Thank you in advance for your help
> Regards
I would appreciate any help with the review process, as I will be the packager of the font collection.
Please have a look at the bug and help a brother
Thanks
Mohammed Isam
Hello,
As Wine co-maintainer I would like to open a discussion on the fonts that Wine
includes. For those that do not know Wine[1] is a set of libraries that allows
Windows executables to run under a Linux environment.
Wine includes several fonts in order to provide support that Windows programs
expect to exist. Packages include:
- wine-arial-fonts
- wine-courier-fonts
- wine-fixedsys-fonts
- wine-marlett-fonts
- wine-ms-sans-serif
- wine-small-fonts
- wine-symbol-fonts
- wine-system-fonts
- wine-tahoma-fonts
- wine-tahoma-fonts-system
- wine-wingdings-fonts
These packages (exception of wine-tahoma-fonts) install fonts to
/usr/share/fonts and affect rendering in applications that call upon these
fonts. Users have complained[2][3] of rendering using these fonts. I do not
experience poor rendering with these fonts so it is hard for me to sympathize,
but I hate having open bugs that go unanswered.
Can the Fedora Font SIG provide guidance? Should Wine be installing to
/usr/share/fonts?
Thanks,
Michael
[1] https://www.winehq.org/
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693180
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039763
On 08/14/2014 02:02 PM, Peter Oliver wrote:
> I think part of the trouble stems from the fact that many of these
> fonts are not the fonts that they claim to be. For example,
> gnome-font-viewer asserts that the "Arial" recently shipped by
> wine-arial-fonts is actually Liberation Sans 2.00.1. Is this even
> legal?
The "Arial" font being shipped originates from a third-party patch set[1] that
aims for Netflix compatibility. It[2] uses the Liberation Sans font, calls it
Arial, and ships it.
If there are legal concerns over the use of this font I will remove it.
[1] https://github.com/compholio/wine-compholio
[2]
https://github.com/compholio/wine-compholio/blob/master/patches/fonts-Missiā¦