diff --git a/ghostscript-fonts.changes b/ghostscript-fonts.changes
index 24ec04e..3bf52d9 100644
--- a/ghostscript-fonts.changes
+++ b/ghostscript-fonts.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Sep 26 10:09:22 CEST 2012 - jsmeix@suse.de
+
+- Provide a link /usr/share/fonts/ghostscript which points to
+  /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts (the directory where Ghostscript
+  expects its fonts) to make the Ghostscript fonts also appear
+  in the directory /usr/share/fonts/ where applications
+  search for fonts (bnc#778879).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Sep 25 14:58:06 CEST 2012 - jsmeix@suse.de
 
diff --git a/ghostscript-fonts.spec b/ghostscript-fonts.spec
index b66463a..872f8a3 100644
--- a/ghostscript-fonts.spec
+++ b/ghostscript-fonts.spec
@@ -129,7 +129,9 @@ the documentation on Hershey fonts.
 # There is nothing to "make" as the sources contain plain font files.
 
 %install
-# Install the fonts into the /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/ directory,
+# Install the fonts into the /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/ directory
+# which is the Ghostscript upstream standard directory where
+# Ghostscript looks first and foremost for its fonts
 # see section "3.1 Fonts" in doc/Install.htm in the Ghostscript sources:
 FONT_INSTALL_DIR=%{buildroot}%{_datadir}/ghostscript/fonts
 install -d -m755 $FONT_INSTALL_DIR
@@ -150,6 +152,11 @@ do t1binary $PFA > ${PFA%%.*}.pfb
    rm -vf $PFA
 done
 popd
+# Provide a link to make the Ghostscript fonts also appear in the directory
+# /usr/share/fonts/ where applications (including X11) search for fonts.
+# A usr/share/fonts/ sub-directory does not exist in the buildroot:
+install -d -m 755 %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/fonts
+ln -s ../ghostscript/fonts %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/fonts/ghostscript
 
 # Use traditional bash scriptlet with an explicite "exit 0" line at the end to be fail safe
 # see http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_scriptlet_snippets
@@ -240,6 +247,7 @@ exit 0
 %files std
 %defattr(0644,root,root,0755)
 %verify(not md5 size mtime) %{_datadir}/ghostscript/fonts/fonts.*
+%{_datadir}/fonts/ghostscript
 %dir %{_datadir}/ghostscript
 %dir %{_datadir}/ghostscript/fonts
 %{_datadir}/ghostscript/fonts/fonts.dir