Matthew Miller (mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org) said:
I happened to install Scratch onto a remove VM (on Fedora
Infrastructure's
new private cloud, in fact) where no fonts were installed. It runs, but
Pango throws warnings about not having anything for 'latin' or 'common'
--
and of course the UI has boxes where the menus and variables should be.
I could require something generic, like 'font(:lang=en)', but that's likely
to pull in a random decorative font.
I could require some specific font, but that seems wrong. (Particularly
since if a "better" match for latin or common happen to be installed,
whatever I said is a requirement will actually be irrelevant.)
Orrr, should I just not worry about this case?
Generally, if you want to run graphical apps, install the @fonts group -
this gives you the preferred default fonts for all of the languages we
support.
If you only care about Latin fonts, just grab dejavu-{sans,serif,mono}-fonts
and be done with it.
Bill