Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 266741
dejavu-fonts: Condensed variants (in -experimental) not available
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:14 EST
I can't seem to use use any of the Condensed variants included in the -experimental subpkg. In both kde's Kcontrol and gnome-font-properties, they are simply not listed. Maybe it's fontconfig bug/issue. ?? Anyway, the only oddity I can find is using fc-list: $ fc-list | grep Deja | grep Condensed DejaVu Serif,DejaVu Serif Condensed:style=Condensed,Book ... It seem to list both "DejaVu Serif" and "DejaVu Serif Condensed" as the font name here, so only the first one seems to be used anywhere. ??
There are many bugs in apps when handling font styles other than the 4 legacy normal/bold/italic/bold-italic I'll check but I think a lot of those are fixed in -devel. If this is so we may need a workaround for F7, but not sure it will be an easy one. I don't have a F7 system to test on BTW
Could you check if the -devel dejavu packages fix your problem ? They are a tad more up to date than the F7 ones
All I can say is that is a bit of a regression for me, DejaVu Sans/Serif Condensed worked fine when I was stuck back on centos4 (and I fell in love with them), but I miss 'em after upgrading to f7. OK, yum --enablerepo=development install dejavu-fonts-experimental and... nothing, no change. fwiw, I can't see the LGC Condensed variants either. I'm starting to think this is perhaps more a fontconfig issue. ??
IIRC there were some ugly workarounds in older dejavu versions to deal with apps that only understand the 4 legacy names, and they were dropped a few releases ago. Will investigate
do the packages you used in centos4 work in F7 ?
Also, did you check in gnome-font-properties if you do not have condensed as a style of dejavu sans (instead of a "dejavu sans condensed" font with a "regular" style) ???
Well I'll be... you're right, they do show in gnome-font-properties that way... maybe then just a limitation in kde's font selection. I'll keep looking...
firefox/thunderbird are comical, they list Dejavu-Sans multiple times (and don't mention/display styles).
(In reply to comment #7) > Well I'll be... you're right, they do show in gnome-font-properties that way... > maybe then just a limitation in kde's font selection. I'll keep looking... Ok, that means the fonts and the base infrastructure are fine, and individual apps have problem handling fonts with many styles Thus it's not a bug in fontconfig or dejavu but several separate application bugs I'll close this entry now. Please check if every issue you encounter is filed as a blocker of bug #272521, and if not enter a new bug and make it block this tracker *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 272521 ***