[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 87871] UI: Font dialog is cluttered (UX)

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87871

V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
A review of source
http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/external/more_fonts/ shows just the
following font families are built and may be deployed with LibreOffice. These
fonts coupled with bundled FreeType, Graphite and HarfBuzz provide LibreOffice
typography support for Latin, CJK and CTL.

We *only* bundle ;-)
Caladea
Carlito
DejaVu Sans
DejaVu Sans Mono
DejaVu Serif
Gentium Basic
Gentium Book Basic
Liberation Mono
Liberation Sans
Liberation Serif
Linux Biolinum G
Linux Libertine Display G Regular
Linux Libertine G
Open Sans
PT Serif
Source Code Pro
Source Sans Pro

The clutter most folks experience comes from the crud that builds up as
programs are installed adding to whatever the OS provides. For example, my home
Windows box currently has 551 font families present.

Unfortunately, for the most part we turn management of the fonts over to the
OS--so you will have to use OS utilities to suppress fonts.

The Tools -> Options -> Fonts panel lets you specify substitution fonts for
fonts not-present (or present) on the system. As well as to specify font to use
for HTML, Basic or SQL.  But beyond those limited capabilities, we don't
provide too much.

Guess there would be room to be more aggressive about reducing the clutter of
too many fonts available from the system--perhaps restricting to just the
LibreOffice core. But that would require some work to implement across the
supported OS and various DE.  But many users would find that unacceptable UI.

Thoughts?

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