[mythtv-theming] What fonts are guaranteed to be on a Linux box?

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:

> I am part of the Mythbuntu theme team and am planning to provide a
> osd_subtitle.xml in the 0.27 version or earlier to fix some font
> issues that exist with the fallback default vesion. Since the theme
> does not ship with any fonts I'd like it to be work "out of the box"
> as much as possible.
>
> Given the theme's origin and heavy reliance elsewhere I can assume
> that the Ubuntu fonts will be available (although I had to install
> them on my Linux and Mac frontends given that I don't use
> Ubuntu/Mythbuntu myself). What other fonts, however, can I rely on to
> be available on a reasonably modern MythTV box? Do distributions ship
> with Liberation? Bitstream? DejaVu? Droid? Or is the simplest thing to
> have the theme ship with some free fonts?
>
> Sorry for potentially derailing the thread, but can you give more details
about the font issues you found in the default set?   If the issues are
technical, it would be nice to fix them in the defaults.

If it's more of a style choice, I would suggest making no assumptions and
packaging them all with the theme.  (BTW, I enjoyed the MythBuntu theme
even when I was using Fedora.)  I also suggest choosing a freely
distributable font (obviously) and packaging its licensing information as
well (not so obvious).  This is done in the MythTV source base
(mythtv/themes/fonts/*.txt).

Jim
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