Comment 18 for bug 865013

Diff/upload per Martin's request in comment #14, should it be required.

This change should only affect the rendering of those (GNOME-based) application that source the value of 'monospace-font-name' via GSettings. The change will only affect those sessions where the user has never overridden the defaults. Those who have previously tested a variety of fonts would be manually responsible for unsetting/resetting the value:

  $ gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name

Given the extremely late nature of this change, I would feel more comfortable and be appreciative if other people could repeat the testing on the offered 'ubuntu-artwork=54' package and confirm getting similar Before/After results as above before it is considered for acceptance. The intent is that the perceived visual sizes in terms number of pixels per cell is roughly equal.

Note that a logout/login is required—normally gsettings is dynamic—as for some reason the reload trigger against:

  /usr/share/gconf/schemas/

denoted in in:

  /var/lib/dpkg/info/gconf2.triggers

is not immediately picking up the fresh installation from the 'ubuntu-artwork' package of a newer:

  /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/ubuntu-artwork.gschema.override

As a side-answer; GNOME 3 Control Center (on which the default Ubuntu configuration experience is based) removed the setting of fonts as a default user option. The 'gnome-tweak-tool' now provides this functionality, and can be found in the Ubuntu Software Centre:

  http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/gnome-tweak-tool