https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1823637
--- Comment #8 from Hans Ulrich Niedermann <[email protected]> --- I have updated my F31 system to F32 yesterday specifically for reproducing this issue. However, my gnome-terminal font selection dialog behaves exactly the same on F32 as it did on F31. It shows four font variants, two of which are actually provided by the terminus-fonts package, and two of which are invented by the fonts software stack for some reason: Terminus Medium Terminus Bold <series of unicode hex code glyphs> Terminus Bold Italic Anyway, the reporter of this bug is showing something *very* different: His gnome-terminal font selection dialog shows four apparent font variants in a very diffent way: <series of rectangles> <series of rectangles> <series of unicode hex code glyphs> <series of rectangles> (BTW, I am still looking for the proper term for those unicode hex code glyphs. If you know that term, please let me know.) I have removed the terminus-fonts package, and automagically the gnome-terminal terminal and the gnome-terminal font selection dialog have changed to stop including terminus. After re-installing the terminus-fonts package, both have automagically started showing terminus fonts again. This behaviour is the same both with the older terminus-fonts-4.48-3.fc32.noarch package (with updates-testing disabled) and (with updates-testing enabled) the newer terminus-fonts-4.48-5.fc32.noarch package. I interpret this as the font installation and removal working very well and as intended, and that ostree is messing up those automagical updates to the state of the font set. So it looks as if ostree/fontconfig or something along those lines is responsible for the reporter's issue and I cannot see what the terminus-fonts package could do about this. So either this bug needs to be address by ostree/fontconfig/something or I just close it for terminus-fonts. That the fonts software stack insists on inventing a broken italic version of a font which explicitly choses not to ship an italic version is an *entirely* *different* *issue*, and not the topic of this bug. However, nobody needs to select those broken italic version from the font selection box, as the fonts actually provided by terminus-fonts are in perfect working order. The user experience is certainly better if you install "terminus-fonts" if you want to use the Terminus font inside, say, your gnome-terminal and emacs, and just ignore the obviously broken italic font variant. The alternative is a separate package with legacy fonts for Emacs, and the user having to find out about actually needing the legacy variant package, then installing that legacy variant package in addition to the standard one to have Terminus for both gnome-terminal and Emacs, and then they see the broken italic font variants in the gnome-terminal font selection dialog again. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ fonts-bugs mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
