source code pro font vs noto font

[Jonathan Riddell]

Having looked at the options we decided Hack was nice so here's the
patch updated to work with that


https://phabricator.kde.org/D1816

Jonathan


On 22 July 2016 at 11:06, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> There's a desire by the design team to have a full experience from
> boot to desktop and back to shutdown.  Specifying default font is
> nothing new and every other desktop/OS does it.
>
>> 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.
>
> Noto is the successor to Droid, we much move with the times to stay relevant.
>
> Hack seems like a good choice for a mono font now it's been pointed
> out to me, that's the successor to Vera and DejaVu so again it's
> nothing new.
>
> Jonathan