Created attachment 365660 [details] Screenshot for the font GUI showing "Sans" Description of problem: (this cannot be termed as a "bug") The default font for Malayalam in Fedora is smc-meera-fonts. When logging into Malayalam locale, the font details appearing on the GUI (System->Preferences->Appearance->Font) is as shown in screenshot. It says "Sans" instead of "Meera". This does not give any information to the normal user about which font he is currently viewing on his desktop. I understand there are ways to get the font information from command line interface. But how to get this information on GUI? Please advise how this can be done and thus the purpose of GUI can be better served in a more useful way to the user. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login to Malayalam (ml_IN) locale 2. Select System->Preferences->Appearance->Font) 3. Check the font information displayed on GUI Actual results: font appear as "Sans" Expected results: From user point of view I feel this must be shown as "Meera", as "Sans" does not give any information about the default font used in Malayalam
This is not specific to Malayalam and is just the way the Linux font system works. We use synthetic fonts (not mere aliases) composed of many different fonts IIRC Microsoft has been copying this design in its new .Net stack