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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523454
--- Comment #6 from Pravin Satpute psatpute@redhat.com 2009-09-29 11:29:27 EDT --- (In reply to comment #0)
Description of problem: Meera font has a scaling property defined in /etc/fonts/conf.d/90-smc-fonts.conf file. It has a 1.2 times size scaling. But in Fedora 11 this scaling is not working properly. When Meera font is selected with size say, 12 for the applications, window titles etc, the entire desktop get ugly with expanded and overlapped titlebars or strings in application.
IMHO reason behind this is font metrics of Meera
Rachana: Ascent: 1638, Descent: 410 Meera: Ascent: 1147, Descent: 901 Lohit: Ascent: 650, Descent: 374
looking at this Meera requires bit more vertical length of title bar for proper rendering as compared to Lohit. With compared to Rachana it requires bit more space below the character.
this Descent values is proper for Meera as there are some ligature required this much below space
see http://pravins.fedorapeople.org/Meera/meera_with_characters_below_base_exten...
about Panel menus getting overlap is because SPACE character 0x0020,
Meera : width = 563 Lohit : width = 350 Rachana : width = 466
see http://pravins.fedorapeople.org/Meera/lohit_space.png http://pravins.fedorapeople.org/Meera/meera_space.png
so obviously Meera required more horizontal space as well, and panel menus getting overlapped, it will be nice if we can reduce its space value little bit
There is problem with OpenOffice, it is somehow not using .conf file, i am looking into it