Comment 45 for bug 412195

Paul Kishimoto wrote:
> @Arne: as you suggested in #29, I researched fontconfig configuration
> files. If I put the attached file in my home directory (as
> ~/.fonts.conf), then Firefox no longer tries to use the Wine Tahoma
> replacement when websites request it. I copied the syntax from an
> example at
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration#Example_1
>
> I disagree with your characterization of this bug. The original text is
> at the top of the page, but you say "The bug here was that the embedded
> bitmaps of Tahoma got used by default, where it's not desired." Those
> things are not equivalent. A better description is "The bug here is that
> Tahoma is installed and used *by the entire desktop*, where it's not
> desired."

My statement was that the original bug report was about the embedded
bitmaps. That has been solved. After that other people hijacked this bug
and made it a whole different issue. This should have been filed as a
separate bug since they are two different things.

And by the way, that the font is used system wide is not a bug, it's
intended behaviour. Therefor if a website requests for Tahoma, you will
see the Tahoma replacement font. Nothing wrong with that!
That you and other users don't like the Tahoma font and want it to be
replaced with something else is a totally different issue.

We could however debate if the Tahoma replacement font was the right
choice, even for Wine, or if we would be better off with the Liberation
fonts, which are metric compatible to the Windows fonts. But that would
also be a mere feature request and not a bug.

It would be a bug if Wine would indeed explicitly depend on the Tahoma
replacement font, IMHO (which should also be filed separately).