FS#7037 - make jre fonts available to fontconfig

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Erik C (Linteg) - Monday, 30 April 2007, 16:58 GMT
Last edited by Eduardo Romero (kensai) - Monday, 03 November 2008, 22:46 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jason Chu (jason)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.8 Voodoo
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Sun's JRE ships with a couple of fonts (Lucida Sans, Lucida Bright & Lucida Typewriter) in the directory /opt/java/jre/lib/fonts, it would be a nice idea to make them available to the rest of the system.
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Closed by  Eduardo Romero (kensai)
Monday, 03 November 2008, 22:46 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  The package was moved to community, and the maintainer said this should not be implemented, as those fonts are non-free, meaning we don't know what might happen if we use them. Reopen in the community section if needed.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 17 May 2007, 14:15 GMT
If they're truetype fonts, jre should store them in /usr/share/fonts/TTF.
Comment by Erik C (Linteg) - Monday, 04 June 2007, 13:25 GMT
Yes, they're TTF fonts, and here's a patch that should move them to /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ and update the font cache on install/update (I stole that part from some other ttf font package).
   fonts.patch (1.1 KiB)
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Saturday, 15 December 2007, 17:53 GMT
maybe this could happen with the move of jre out of opt in the hopefully near future
Comment by Danny Arnold (despairblue) - Monday, 12 May 2008, 13:14 GMT
I don't think this is a bug-report. Can someone change it to feature request please.

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