Once upon a time fonts could only exist with regular/bold/italic/bold italic styles. If you wanted more variants you had to declare several fonts with different names It was fixed in the font formats a long time ago. But because good FLOSS fonts were scarce, and good proprietary fonts with more than the 4 legacy variants were not that frequent either, FLOSS app writers mostly didn't notice it. So the assumption only the 4 legacy styles exist is embedded in many FLOSS apps. Fortunately the landscape is changing, rich FLOSS fonts are getting more common (one such example is dejavu), and more creative users with huge font collections make Fedora their desktop. Unfortunately this expose bugs in apps not ready to handle more than 4 styles. This bug is intended as a tracker for such issues in Fedora
*** Bug 266741 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There's not much, if any, point in keeping this bug open here. All the features/bugs should be fixed upstream.
This bug gives a status of the current problem you can't get upstream since you have many problem upstreams with many different bug trackers Also sometimes you have pleasant surprises. OO.o upstream fix was done by the Fedora maintainer
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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Is this bug still relevant?