Comment 30 for bug 206018

I don't think there will be much people second your point. Using a serif
style font "Sont Ti" as the default screen font is ugly and many people
could not accept it any more. That is the reason both "Microsoft" and
"Apple" had switched to sans-serif style font "Hei Ti" as the main screen
font. Apple is the first, Microsoft Windows Vista is the second, why not
Linux do the switch?

I agree that there's no need to change font just for showing something
different from Windows. But you should know that Windows vista use
san-serif style font "Ya Hei" as the default screen font NOW!

For LTS, I think the WQY is actually tested more that uming, why? Because
many people around me will install WQY immediately after they install the
ubuntu linux. That is not to say uming is bad, that is to say a san-serif
style font serves better for the default screen font than the serif style
font did.
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Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu.

<email address hidden> 写于 2008.04.15 06:28:55:
> The point i was making is, there is no need to change font from any
previous
> releases of ubuntu. I was just using SimSun as an example, maybe a really
> bad one, sorry. Anyways, I would just say stick with the Arphic UMing, as
> Wenzhuo said. I mean we do want to make improvement to it. There is a
reason
> that the SimSun font is a successful font, because people simply like it.
> The closest we can get to is the Arphic Uming, then let's use it. What we
> should do is to improve the Arphic font, not to create a new font and put
it
> in a LTS release. I know the font is great work, and it's open sourced.
But
> i think we have time to perfect it, a LTS release should not contain
> anything that is not tested enough, the same reason that Kubuntu with
KDE4
> is not going to be LTS.
>
>
> Boning Chen