Comment 6 for bug 105906

You're right, this is stupid because ideally the default font should be chosen by oowriter according to what fonts are present. But since the Nimbus and Free fonts are a dependency of ubuntu-desktop, they are installed by default on all desktops and are not likely to be removed.
OTOH, using "Times" is a real issue since, although you solve the hardcoding issue, you hardcode the name of a *font* that does not exist: you're not just saying to oowriter to use the *font family* Times. Using this trick is really bad:
- users don't see the real name of the font: when they want to go back to this font from another one, they look for "Times" and don't find it - "what's this magical font?!"
- on Windows, oowriter uses a real font, "Times New Roman"
- Ubuntu should promote the free fonts it provides, and tell their names - people will understand better the issues of changing layouts when going to Windows/Office

I cannot understand your stance here: what's the point in using a "Times" alias that can match several fonts? Maybe my patch is wrong, but at least th current situation has to be solved. No other distribution is doing this, and we need to patch Debian for that.

Cheers