Bug#557631: openoffice.org should recommend ttf-mscorefonts-installer (not as an alternative)

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:28:42PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2009-11-23 16:17:39 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:01:55PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > OK. Is there another way to make the user aware of the font problems?
> > > Would a message when installing ttf-liberation or openoffice.org be a
> > > good idea?
> > 
> > ttf-liberation maybe. But what should it say? "If you need
> > $random_font_XXX install the non-free fonts from M$?"
> 
> Something like:
> 
> If you want to open documents created with M$ Word, you may need
> to install the non-free fonts from M$ (ttf-mscorefonts-installer).

Not true.

> Note that if some fonts are missing, OpenOffice won't tell you
> and the document may not appear as designed by its author.

True.

But no way. I will not add anything like this. (Besides the fact that this
a) would be debconf abuse
b) would s priority which is not even shown per default (low/medium),
   so has no effect anyway

Grüße/Regards,

Rene
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