Bug#1028897: fontconfig: wrong name for the Noto monospace font

On 2023-08-21 08:52, fab...@greffrath.com wrote: However, we, in Debian, as a distribution, have all the rights to aim for the most aesthetically pleasing view of our default installation and thus I support the change back to DejaVu Sans Mono as the default monospace font. This, and we already

Bug#1028897: fontconfig: wrong name for the Noto monospace font

Hi Gunnar, Am 2023-08-19 16:04, schrieb Gunnar Hjalmarsson: Another question is if the Noto Sans Mono deficiency is important enough to motivate a Debian level change in this respect. I don't know. @Fabian, I sent this reply to you as well in the hope to broaden the discussion a bit. thanks

Bug#1028897: fontconfig: wrong name for the Noto monospace font

Le 20/08/2023 à 22:15, Gunnar Hjalmarsson a écrit : Thus, the default font for the "Monospace" alias will depend on the installed packages. That's always the case, isn't it? The output of "fc-match" or "fc-match mono" depends on a combo of available fonts and the font configuration. Yes,

Bug#1028897: fontconfig: wrong name for the Noto monospace font

On 2023-08-20 21:34, Raphaël Halimi wrote: As I understand it, this will make fontconfig select DejaVu Sans Mono on most desktop installations (since libreoffice depends on both sets), and Noto Mono on a handful of installations, namely, minimal installations which will have only

Bug#1028897: fontconfig: wrong name for the Noto monospace font

Le 20/08/2023 à 12:33, Gunnar Hjalmarsson a écrit : So, I just downloaded NotoSansMono-Regular.ttf from its new home [1] (the old repository in the Debian copyright file has been archived), opened it in font-viewer and... Sadly, the spacing is still "Proportional" and not "Monospace" :( Thanks

Bug#1028897: fontconfig: wrong name for the Noto monospace font

Control: owner -1 gunna...@debian.org Control: tags -1 + pending On 2023-08-19 17:01, Raphaël Halimi wrote: Le 19/08/2023 à 16:04, Gunnar Hjalmarsson a écrit : It's worth mentioning that the fonts-noto packages in Debian ship almost 3 years old fonts. An update to latest upstream would be

Bug#1028897: fontconfig: wrong name for the Noto monospace font

Le 19/08/2023 à 16:04, Gunnar Hjalmarsson a écrit : As you may have seen, I submitted and fixed it. Thanks for mentioning it! Yes I saw that, you CC'd me ; and thank you for acting on this problem. Seeing that the time I spend on writing detailed e-mails to

Bug#1028897: fontconfig: wrong name for the Noto monospace font

Hi again, As you may have seen, I submitted and fixed it. Thanks for mentioning it! On 2023-08-17 15:34, Raphaël Halimi wrote: IMHO, if Debian wants to follow the upstream fontconfig default to use the Noto fonts, the system should work without the DejaVu

Bug#1028897: fontconfig: wrong name for the Noto monospace font

Hi Raphaël! Raphaël Halimi wrote: The problem is that the monospace Noto font is actually "Noto Mono" and not "Noto Sans Mono" (probably a typo on upstream's part). If you use a font manager you'll see that there is indeed a font called "Noto Sans Mono", but if you filter them out to list only