[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 103080] A new default set of bundled fonts

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103080

--- Comment #7 from Yousuf Philips (jay) <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Jean-Francois Nifenecker from comment #4)
> The Linux * G fonts are the only ones that allow support for enhanced
> typographic management within documents. Using them in conjunction with the
> Typography toolbar extension
> (http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/typography-toolbar)
> contributes to make Writer a true DTP tool. This is why they are used by
> some people (myself included) as their template fonts. This means that
> removing them from LibO installs would, at best, force to add them
> afterward, and, at worse, would fail to show the qualities of Writer,
> typographically-wise.
> Hence, I strongly disagree with the removal of these fonts. For the time
> being, the mere fact they haven't been updated in a while doesn't make them
> rubbish, anyway.

I'm all for showing off the features available in LibreOffice, but not sure
that bundling 20MB worth of fonts that maybe used by a very minimal amount of
users is efficient usage of space. We even show these font in a prominent top
section of the top font list combobox when such a space should be taken up by
more important fonts.

> Another option would be to remove the fonts from the software installation,
> as proposed, and provide a separate font bundle to be downloaded at the very
> same place the software is available.

I was speaking yesterday with cloph about creating font collection installers
for cjk fonts, so i guess one could be considered for an old fonts collection,
which would contain all the fonts that were removed.

> Besides, I agree with the idea that the proposed cleanup should only be done
> after a missing font infobar is available so that users whose documents rely
> upon removed fonts be clearly aware of the changes and can take the
> appropriate measures.

Doubt we would need to wait for the infobar, but fixing bug 61134 and/or bug
96872 would be more than sufficient to notify users that fonts are missing, if
they havent already noticed how we currently show them that a font is missing.

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