Comment 8 for bug 69091

The bug report seems to mention two issues - (1) fuzzy fonts (2) undesirable creation of ~/.fonts.conf

The (2) bit of this issue that referred to system settings | Appearance creating ~/.fonts.conf each time it is accessed may now not exist in Intrepid.

$ cat /etc/lsb-release;date;uname -a;cd ~;find . -type f -name '.font*'
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"
Sat Feb 14 14:10:47 GMT 2009
Linux d183z2g 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
./GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/.fonts_converted
#The line above is just because I use WindowMaker so should be ignored.

I have accessed system settings | Appearance twice this morning and Intrepid seems not to have the undesirable behaviour of creating ~/.fonts.conf just because
you accessed system settings | Appearance

What follows is guesswork regarding why Intrepid Gnome no longer feels the need to create ~/.fonts.conf

useri@d183z2g:~$ grep issing /etc/fonts/conf.d/*.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf: <include ignore_missing="yes">~/.fonts.conf</include>
/etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf: <include ignore_missing="yes">local.conf</include>
/etc/fonts/conf.d/52-languageselector.conf: <include ignore_missing="yes">language-selector.conf</include>

Gnome version in Intrepid is 2.24 according to this link
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/10/ubuntu-gets-horny-intrepid-ibex-8-10-officially-released.ars

$ dpkg -l | grep gnome-control-center
ii gnome-control-center 1:2.24.0.1-0ubuntu7 utilities to configure the GNOME desktop

It might be that Gnome itself has been reworked to treat the presence of ~/.fonts.conf
as being now entirely optional. A Gnome expert might be able to confirm this.