On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 11:23 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Jared K. Smith (jsmith@fedoraproject.org) said:
I know that Gnome is using Cantarell as its default font, and it seems that something has changed in Fedora to make Cantarell the default font for all desktops. I heard from the KDE SIG this morning that there is some confusion as to whether that was intended to be a global change, or a change only for the Gnome desktop.
I don't pretend to have a clue when it comes to fonts or the fontconfig stuff -- but I'd like to kick off this discussion so that there is less confusion and that nobody tries to ascribe to malice that which can be explained by miscommunication. Is there someone that understands the change that can fill me in on the missing details?
If it has become the default font for all desktops, it's likely due to it becoming the default mapping for Sans in fontconfig. (Whether that was intentional, I don't know.)
Not intentional, afaik. The plan is to set the dconf keys used by gnome for fonts to 'Cantarell' explicitly, so we don't have to rely on the 'Sans' alias. For a while, the Adwaita theme was hardcoding the font to Cantarell, too. But we've since decided to use drop that and use the dconf key. The culprit might be /etc/fonts/conf.d/57-cantarell.conf. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about fontconfig syntax to figure that out on the spot...