Kevin Kofler wrote:
Half-baked support for useless font "features" is
counterproductive. It's
similar with Latin ligatures (thankfully in that case the fix turned out
trivial, though it doesn't fix the issue completely because fonts may also
define ligatures other than the standard Unicode ligatures).
Talk is cheap. Show me the screenshot of a broken case.
IMHO it would
be much better to keep all those features disabled (at least by default)
until they actually *work* in all the major applications. If that's
forever, so be it, those features can all be done without.
Apparently thousands of people think it works. If it doesn't for you, use
some pre-GNOME, pre-KDE desktop on Debian stale, err, stable.
Is having separate entries for "Arial" and "Arial
Narrow" in the font list
really such a serious issue that avoiding it is so important that it is
worth breaking almost all applications in some way?
That has nothing to do with why the bug is there. The bug is there because no
one every got to fix it. Part of the problem has been that I have no Free
fonts installed that show that behavior.
behdad
Kevin Kofler