Desktop/Whiteboards/BetterFontHandling

We spend most of our computer time reading and writing text. Studies show that even the smallest improvement in fonts or font rendering produces huge benefits. The competition has realised it a long time ago.

Possible areas for improvement in font handling:

• Modernize/complete the font selection/preview dialog. See:
  • Nicolas Spalinger's call
  • another gtk-devel thread
  • Support user control or OpenType features gnome545510, gnome547472
  • Fix it in OOo too: ooo79878
• Modernize the font tab in the appearance capplet
• Font installation:
  • Make font installation easy. Packages may not be the best approach to fonts (packaging means minimal legal audit of the font, addition of human-friendly description and necessary fontconfig rules, bundling of license text, fc-cache automation, etc Doing it all elsewhere means creating another font-specific packaging format.)
  • If packages are the answer for now, at least make font installation automatic, see Features/AutomaticFontInstallation
• Fix OOo:
  • Support CFF fonts ooo43029
  • Support OpenType features in TTF and CFF fonts ooo16032, ooo78749
  • Fix the font selection (see before)
• Add baseline table support to pango (align scripts in a line of text) for non-latin scripts gnome346419
• Implement side bearing deltas in cairo and pango (see http://osdir.com/ml/fonts.freetype.user/2007-03/msg00057.html)
• Fix the other problems identified there

Fonts in Fedora
The Fonts SIG takes loving care of Fedora fonts. Please join this special interest group if you are interested in creating, improving, packaging, or just suggesting a font. Any help will be appreciated.