На Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:38:48 +0100 Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> записано:
> Alexander GQ Gerasiov skrev: > > Most Windows applications work fine without Tahoma. > > Well, on the one hand, there are "most" applications, and on the > other, there are very popular and very important applications which > everyone and their mother want to work. I guess there's a tradeoff. Yes, but I'm not sure, that these (bad designed) applications are more important than all non-latin1 users. From the other side, excluding this font into separate wine-tahoma package (proposed by libwine) may solve this problem in some way. > So please refer to the upstream bug report, you can complain there if > you like. All you have to do is convince them of the error of their > ways, and packages on all distros will follow suit, including > Debian... I'm sure, that upstream sometimes do things which we have to workaround in packaging. > That leaves to choose any random font from the user's sytem, and I'm > pretty sure that is a sure recipe for the Wine developers getting > lots of complaints about crappy UI, with button labels that are too > big to fit the buttons and whatnot. (On Debian, where not even Arial > might be available, the problem would be exacerbated.) Introducing a > Windows-compatible font, Tahoma, helped them avoid most of these > complaints. But they're still working on it, of course. > > > users caught serious regression with this release. > > Wine is a work in progress (nominally "beta") and "serious > regressions" happen regularly and often fairly deliberately. Sure, but I think, that we should not include this font into debian package, until it includes most glyphs. This is not very bad if package in unstable or testing will have such problem, but could you be sure, that Lenny will be released with normal font? > That's > not going to change until Wine 1.0 is released (which has been "soon" > for more than 2 years). If you want a "stable" version of Wine, you > should buy CodeWeaver's version or something. He-he. BTW, they fixed this bug by including glyphs from some other free font. It looks terrible, so we had also to remove this font from our Crossover installation. > > Like I said, take it to Wine developers if you don't like what they > are doing. I like what they are doing, but as in situation with linux kernel, I'm sure, that debian package should be more end-user oriented than upstream one. -- Alexander
