0.1.20060928-2 makes default gnome fonts ugly

[Jeff Bailey]

Reverting to ttf-arphic-uming_0.1.20060513-1_all.deb fixes the problem.

[Andrew Mitchell (ajmitch)]

This is especially noticeable in firefox, as not all desktop fonts seem to get changed.

[Denis Moyogo Jacquerye (moyogo)]

This is also noticeable in Epiphany, GDM, etc.
For some reason 'fc-match Sans', Serif or Mono return 'uming.ttf: "AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni" "Regular"'

[Niall Creech (sevenmachines-deactivatedaccount)]

just to additionally confirm the above

[Che Guevara (che-guevara-3)]

another confirmation

[Constantine Evans (cevans)]

This is a problem with the fontconfig configuration. It appears that it is being caused by /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-ttf-arphic-uming.conf declaring uming to be the strongest preference for every alias. Why was that done?

[Constantine Evans (cevans)]

I'm attaching two patches here, one which changes all of the <prefer> to <accept>, and one which removes all of the <alias> sections in ttf-arphic-uming altogether.

I'm assuming that there is some reason why uming is declaring aliases in its configuration file, which not a single other font in fontconfig appears to do, so I suppose that the <accept> patch should be the least controversial. However, I don't understand why the font configuration for uming does this. Is there some language reason? In addition, why is it declaring itself as preferred for the sans alias, which *doesn't even exist*? But I'll file another bug about those issues.

[Constantine Evans (cevans)]

This is the patch that changes all <prefer> tags to <accept> tags, and is probably the better and more conservative of the two patches.

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

Fix just uploaded; thanks for the patch Constatine.