[4655] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Minutes of 2004-06-30 release team meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Tue Jul 6 09:21:02 2004
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu
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Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:10:45 -0400
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 13:43, Greg Hudson wrote:
> We would like to install an Xft-enabled Mozilla build, but Bob reports
> that under Solaris, even with the third/redhat-fonts upgrade, it uses
> an ugly serif font in the menus. Bob will look into that.
I think I found the problem. For the menus (and other chrome text
that wants a sans-serif font), mozilla asks for a matching font in
the helvetica family, but also adds "serif" to the matching pattern
specification, as its default. (This is probably a minor bug in
mozilla). We have the "Nimbus Sans L" font installed as part of
the redhat fonts package, but do not register it as an alias for
the helvetica family in /etc/athena/fonts/fonts.conf, so the
fontconfig code does not match on it, falling back instead to a
serif font.
Adding the appropriate alias in fonts.conf fixes the problem. I
will do some more testing, and try to determine what other changes
should be made to the fonts configuration, before submitting a
patch.
Bob
