When I manually installed kdm, it didn't pull any fonts as a dependency. Kdm displayed rectangles instead of letters. I installed dejavu* fonts and everyting is fine since then. Can you add this dependency to kdm rpm? I'm not sure if dejavu fonts are the best choice, but kdm should require at least some font for it's proper functionality.
It's pretty much assumed that you have the the yum groups "base-x" and "fonts" (or *something* that provides the default Monospace, Sans, Serif definitions to fontconfig) installed, if you want a functional X environment. For example, gdm has no explicit font requirements either.
(In reply to comment #1) > It's pretty much assumed that you have the the yum groups "base-x" and "fonts" > (or *something* that provides the default Monospace, Sans, Serif definitions to > fontconfig) installed, if you want a functional X environment. I installed packages via yum install, cherry-picking just those I wanted. > > For example, gdm has no explicit font requirements either. I'm not sure if this is a real bug, but I still think this dependency should be somehow satisfied. Do you think it would make sense to propose some fonts to be default in Fedora? (for example dejavu or liberation).
DejaVu is basically the default, if you do an install including X11, you'll get at least that one. I don't think installing only console stuff and doing just "yum install kdm" later is something we really support. (BTW, don't you also need to install at least one desktop environment to go with kdm? Or is this an XDMCP setup or something like that?)
(In reply to comment #3) > DejaVu is basically the default, if you do an install including X11, you'll get > at least that one. I don't think installing only console stuff and doing just > "yum install kdm" later is something we really support. (BTW, don't you also > need to install at least one desktop environment to go with kdm? Or is this an > XDMCP setup or something like that?) Of course I installed kde along with kdm. I have fully working desktop. btw, I installed first package that actually needs some fonts a moment ago - openoffice.org-core. It requires both dejavu and liberation fonts.
Re: comment #2 " but I still think this dependency should be somehow satisfied." Agreed, but that's really outside the scope of kdm and *this* bug. Mind taking up the issue onlist, on say fedora-devel ?
Sure, fedora-devel is fine. I'll start a thread and keep you in CC.
OK, per ml thread, I've added some default fonts (google-droid for now) to kde-desktop in comps.
(In reply to comment #7) > OK, per ml thread, I've added some default fonts (google-droid for now) to > kde-desktop in comps. Please use dejavu at least until all problems with google-droid are resolved.
For posterity, we ended up adding dejavu fonts to kde-desktop in comps, though the consensus from the ml thread was that in general, users should do: yum groupinstall fonts to get a default set of fonts.