Activity log for bug #724022

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2011-02-24 00:04:28 Paul Sladen bug added bug
2011-02-24 00:04:39 Paul Sladen ubuntu-font-family: status New Incomplete
2011-02-24 00:04:42 Paul Sladen ubuntu-font-family: importance Undecided Wishlist
2011-02-24 00:04:50 Paul Sladen bug task added ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu)
2011-02-24 00:05:17 Paul Sladen ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu): importance Undecided Wishlist
2011-02-24 03:33:18 Paul Sladen attachment added ubuntu-mono-required.set-1.pdf https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/724022/+attachment/1868141/+files/ubuntu-mono-required.set-1.pdf
2011-02-24 03:34:19 Paul Sladen attachment added ubuntu-mono-required.set-1.svg https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/724022/+attachment/1868143/+files/ubuntu-mono-required.set-1.svg
2011-03-08 07:21:25 Paul Sladen ubuntu-font-family: milestone mono
2011-03-08 14:58:20 Yann Dìnendal bug added subscriber Yann Dìnendal
2011-03-09 17:22:20 Paul Sladen tags uff-bitmap uff-console
2011-03-09 17:23:14 Paul Sladen bug added subscriber Dustin Kirkland
2011-03-21 22:08:27 Nathan Haines bug added subscriber Nathan Haines
2011-05-28 15:09:34 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) bug added subscriber Treviño (Marco Trevisan)
2011-06-07 17:07:38 Robert C. bug added subscriber Robert C.
2011-06-16 19:20:27 SethWoodworth bug added subscriber SethWoodworth
2011-07-15 15:10:27 Paul Sladen description The text-mode console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) currently uses the default system/VGA font but a hinted version of Ubuntu Mono would be lovely to have loadable on the Linux console when it's finished. Converting a TTF so that it is usable as bitmap Linux console font appears to be a two-stage process; first rasterising to a BFD bitmap font file (bitmap with metrics), and then from that into a rawform, equal width PSF bitmap console font: otf2bdf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.ttf > UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.bdf bdf2psf UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.bdf /usr/share/bdf2psf/standard.equivalents /usr/share/bdf2psf/required.set+/usr/share/bdf2psf/useful.set 256 UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.psf setfont -h17 UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.psf The R21 Mono Beta has a cell bounding box of 482×1000 (including necessary leading and advance); this leads to bounding box of 8x17 rather than the traditional 8x16 and this is what the "-n17" forces upon loading. The result useful but very ugly because of the lack of manual hinting. We probably also want to make sure that at least all of the codepoints listed in the 'required.set' file are present and populated if we're going to replace the current default. The text-mode console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) currently uses the default system/VGA font but a hinted version of Ubuntu Mono would be lovely to have loadable on the Linux console when it's finished. Converting a TTF so that it is usable as bitmap Linux console font appears to be a two-stage process; first rasterising to a BFD bitmap font file (bitmap with metrics), and then from that into a rawform, equal width PSF bitmap console font:   otf2bdf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.ttf > UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.bdf   bdf2psf UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.bdf /usr/share/bdf2psf/standard.equivalents /usr/share/bdf2psf/required.set+/usr/share/bdf2psf/useful.set 256 UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.psf   setfont -h17 UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.psf The R21 Mono Beta has a cell bounding box of 482×1000 (including necessary leading and advance); this leads to bounding box of 8x17 rather than the traditional 8x16 and this is what the "-n17" forces upon loading. The result useful but very ugly because of the lack of manual hinting. We probably also want to make sure that at least all of the codepoints listed in the 'required.set' file are present and populated if we're going to replace the current default. ===== Eventually (11.10?) we should try to apply the Ubuntu fonts to the console as well. Steps 12–14 are blocked waiting for the Ubuntu Monospace to be released and available in the archive. 11) gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Proportional) - bug #732854 12) Bterm (d-i) (Monospace) - 13) Grub2 (Monospace) - bug #729470 14) Console-setup (Monospace) - bug #724022 (this bug)
2011-07-26 10:48:26 Marcus Haslam attachment added unnamed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/724022/+attachment/2233484/+files/unnamed
2011-09-15 18:45:32 Christian Schürer-Waldheim bug added subscriber Christian Schürer-Waldheim
2011-09-21 11:04:44 Launchpad Janitor ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2011-09-22 15:07:35 Jay Ó Broin bug added subscriber J. Ó Broin
2013-01-29 20:58:28 toobuntu bug added subscriber toobuntu
2013-03-15 05:30:58 Daniel van Vugt bug added subscriber Daniel van Vugt
2015-03-02 12:14:27 Matthew Paul Thomas summary Wishlist: Enable use of Ubuntu Mono as .psf console-setup font [21 new] Allow use of Ubuntu Mono as .psf console-setup font
2015-03-02 12:15:06 Matthew Paul Thomas ubuntu-font-family: status Incomplete Confirmed
2015-03-05 15:17:52 Matthew Paul Thomas ubuntu-font-family: importance Wishlist Low
2015-03-09 10:11:04 Matthew Paul Thomas tags uff-bitmap uff-console uff-bitmap uff-console uff-dm-new
2017-11-28 05:33:07 Jeremy Bícha ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu): status Confirmed Fix Released
2017-11-28 05:33:11 Jeremy Bícha ubuntu-font-family: status Confirmed Fix Released