source code pro font vs noto font

[Eric Hameleers]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2016, Andrey Bondrov wrote:

> ? Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:47:56 +0100
> Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> ?????:
>
>> https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/releases/tag/2.010R-ro/1.030R-it
>>
>> Do distros have an opinion on a preferred font to use which they could
>> make available?
>
> In ROSA Desktop we use Droid Sans instead of Nono Sans and Bitstream
> Vera Sans Mono instead of Oxygen Mono as Plasma defaults (both
> plasma-integration and plasma-desktop were patched for that). It
> doesn't really matter for us which mono font upstream prefers.

Why would a desktop environment have a hard-coded requirement for the 
Mono font which has to be adopted by downstream? Look at ROSA who have 
to apply patches to give preference to their own font choices.

I do not want to be forced to add this Adobe font. It was bad enough 
when we had to swallow the Noto fonts. Why are fonts like Droid, 
Liberation, Vera or DejaVu not good enough? Every distro has one or 
more of those installed.

The least you can do is make the default font a configurable choice, 
and accompany it with a recommendation for the font you (upstream) 
prefer.

Cheers, Eric

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