On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 10:57:17PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Adam Borowski - 07.06.19, 21:09: > > On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 11:24:03AM -0700, James Lu wrote: > > > I use Noto Sans, which supports a lot of languages out of the box > > > and is the default in at least Cinnamon AFAIK. > > > > Noto has one technical problem: it registers hundreds of font family > > ones, making font selection dialogs useless if you have Noto > > installed. > > > > It'd be better if we had just "Noto Sans", "Noto Serif" and "Noto > > Mono" instead of "Noto Southwestern Reformed Klingon" as a separate > > family. > > Also if you remove packages > > - fonts-noto-extra > - fonts-noto-ui-extra > - fonts-noto-cjk > - fonts-noto-cjk-extra# > > ? > > I just did so here and font selection requester is much more palatable > than before.
It's not nice to drop language support. I guess it'be nice to contact upstream and/or patch it in our packages. I don't think there's a reason for the user to manually select a particular writing script, fontconfig is supposed to do the work automatically. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Sometimes you benefit from delegating stuff. For example, ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ this way I get to be a vegetarian. ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
