Re: condensed duplication

On Monday 10 March 2008, Denis Jacquerye wrote:
> Legacy apps can only handle legacy names with 4 variants, i.e., they
> should show two different font families like DejaVu Sans and DejaVu
> Sans Condensed.
> Apps with more recent support of OpenType will support preferred
> names, i.e., they should show only one font family like DejaVu Sans
> (with Condensed as a variant just like Bold).
> Bugs appear when an app mixes both legacy and preferred. This is the
> case in KDE or Gecko apparently.

To be more specific: KDE uses Fontconfig for font management and 
Fontconfig handles the preferred names. Since KDE can't tell fontconfig 
to ignore preferred families because KDE can't handle it well, it has 
no choice to accept whatever Fontconfig gives it (which is the 
preferred names), so you end up not being able to select condensed 
fonts in KDE.

Greetings
Ben

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