Re: Shipping Vera with 2.4

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

 --- Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> wrote: > <quote who="James Henstridge">
> 
> > Well, possibly performing an edit on the sysconfdir/fonts/local.conf file
> > during "make install" might be a better idea, then (maybe with a configure
> > option to turn this behaviour off?).
> 
> Sounds a bit 'rude' (archaic and modern meanings). :-)
> 
> Here's a nutty idea -> if someone ends up getting doorman going again, we
> could detect if the font is not Vera (via the sans-serif mirror or current
> setting), and display a page about how cool it is with an option to change.
> 

Why penalise distros who ship their own binary set of fonts ? Vera is not an
universal solution to everything and shouldn't be tretaed that way by gnome.

> ;-)
> 
> - Jeff (going back to the marketing office as we speak...)
> 
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