[Bug 865013] Re: Ship Ubuntu Mono as default monospace font in Ubuntu 11.10

[Paul Sladen]

Thank you Pitti, yes:

  (1) Doing it via fontconfig-fonts, would not limit it to just
Ubuntu/Unity.  For purely GNOME theming, the following key could be set:

    $ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name
    'Monospace 11'

    $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name
'Ubuntu Mono 12'

    $ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name
    'Ubuntu Mono 12'

  (2) fontconfig-fonts affects all.  The platform-wide interactions have
not received real integration testing.  Those (large) numbers of people
testing have been configuring the fonts in an environment to themselves
and focusing on the typeface itself.

  (3) Ubuntu Mono does not include coverage for CJK or Thai.

    (3a) As presently occurs with DejaVu Sans Mono, those glyphs would
continue to be substituted from other fonts.

    (3b) For CJK this actually works slightly better because CJK are
generally drawn 1000x1000 and Ubuntu Mono is 500x1000.  As a result a
double-width character lays better then substituting into 2* 600x1000
(1200x1000) as with DejaVu Sans Mono.

    (3c) The Ubuntu Mono Cyrillic and Greek have not received the same
level of testing as the Latin.  The Cyrillic has collected a number of
comments during feedback, particularly about the Cyrillic g ('Г', bug
#784549 + five dups), Serbian soft n ('њ', bug #654192) and variations
of the Serbian Cyrillic T ('Ђ, Ћ, ђ, ћ', bug #784585).  The ghe in
particular tends to caught the attention of a number of Russian outlets.
Some from the last couple of days since the 0.80 release:

  http://www.blog-linux.ru/ubuntu-font-family-obnovili-do-0-80/
  "русская буквой «Г» в Ubuntu Mono явно отдыхали…"

  http://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID3/80543.html#1
  "Заглавная 'Г' оригинально выглядит"
  "Я бы даже сказал, что она выглядит как Г..."
  "Г — г…"

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Title:
  Ship Ubuntu Mono as default monospace font in Ubuntu 11.10

Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in “ubuntu-font-family-sources” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Counterpart to bug #861334 ("Ship Ubuntu Mono .psf as default console
  font in Ubuntu 11.10"), but easier to implement.

  Mark Shuttleworth has requested that Ubuntu Mono Reguloar be used as
  the default monospace font for console use in Ubuntu 11.10.

  Hard Freeze was 72 hours ago.  This would require:

    1. Upstream release of Ubuntu Font Family 0.80.  DONE.
    2. Distro upload of Ubutu Font Family 0.80 minus Medium for oneiric.  DONE.
    3. Bumping "Ubuntu Mono" to first preference in 'fontconfig-config' package.

  This can be done in the files:

    /etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf

  although Droid Sans has another interesting approach in:

       /etc/fonts/conf.d/60-ttf-droid-sans-mono-fonts.conf

  which could be tested.

  I have run this past a member of the Ubuntu Doc team, who are happy
  with it, noting that none of the documentation screenshots cover
  monospace fonts.  If there is a case, to the untrained eye one
  monospace is much like another and textual descriptions would be
  unaffected.

  The only potentional outcome that could do with further investigation
  is how to increase the default font size by ~12% to compensate for
  Ubuntu Mono following Inconsolata's metrics, rather than DejaVu Sans
  Mono's metric (the present default).

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