Comment 21 for bug 206018

OK, let me summarize my arguments agaist using Zen Hei as the default Chinese font under current circumstances:

1. Blurry strokes of truetype fonts.
2. Missing 14px bitmap font.
3. No pre-designed bold face, and either xft or freetype make a mess of the strokes of complex and not-so-complex characters.
4. Ubuntu has come a long way to achieve the visual effect of Chinese characters as seen in Gutsy and Hardy beta Desktop CD, which is already quite satisfactory (I think). No need to make radical changes at present, which is seemingly a step backward.
5. Other packages, e.g. language-selector, still prefers Arphic UMing.
6. Although both adopts Firefly's bitmaps as you said, Zen Hei just lacks the professional touches of Uming, IMHO.

fangq, thank you for your hard work in creating the open source Zen Hei. As I said in the bug description, it is an excellent new font. I am reporting this bug from a user's perspective which, I believe, can represent the opinions of a good portion of users. I wish Zen Hei and font rendering libraries would further mature to a state that Zen Hei can become a satisfactory default font for most Chinese users.