On Tuesday 17 April 2007 09:23, Alexander Gerasiov wrote: > I have nice M$ fonts from msttcorefonts package and don't want to > install buggy ttf-dejavu nor (ttf-bitstream-vera I don't like). > > Please add more alternatives (msttcorefonts at least) into depends.
Google Earth specifically uses the Bitstream Vera family fonts. I only added the ttf-dejavu option after someone confirmed that it does indeed work correctly with DejaVu installed and Bitstream Vera purged installed. This only works because they are the same font family. Generally, if you try to run Google Earth without Bitstream Vera or DejaVu, you get: "You don't seem to have the Bitstream Vera Sans font installed." and it refuses to run. (I've heard other people claiming that it worked with different fonts, but from what I can glean, they didn't actually clean the fonts off their system and out of any caches or user directories first, and I can't reproduce their success.) On the other hand, if you or someone else can *absolutely* confirm that Google Earth does indeed work with a different free font package in Debian, with ttf-dejavu and ttf-bitstream-vera purged, a clean ~/.fonts directory, and all X sessions and font servers reloaded afterward, I am happy to add it as an option. Otherwise you'll have to live with having an extra 300 KiB font installed--which honestly is small potatoes compared to all the redundant binary libraries that Google Earth ships with. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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