https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1823637



--- Comment #10 from Akira TAGOH <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Hans Ulrich Niedermann from comment #8)
> 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.

Right. that should works on WS. and is the off topic for this issue and misled
by comment#1. please ignore it.

> 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.

Right.. In that sense, applications which are going to deal with un-supported
format should ignore them in their code to query fonts, in general at least.

(In reply to Hans Ulrich Niedermann from comment #9)
> So... is this actually just a duplicate of
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1750891>?

No, I don't think so.


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