Public bug reported: The package `fonts-noto-core` contains 150+ highly exotic fonts, including cuneiform and hieroglyphics. These are high-quality but for all practical intents and purposes, never needed all at once, not even by a PhD in linguistics. 99%+ of the users will need only one language out of those.
This sheer number of fonts clutters font selectors in applications, causing some to freeze[1], and the users to waste time hunting for the fonts they actually care about. Removing these fonts is an option, but it unnecessarily wastes the time of most users[2] (who use English[3]), is in some cases impossible[4], and far from simple. The question of how to remove unwanted fonts in Ubuntu has come again and again: * https://superuser.com/questions/248844/how-do-you-remove-fonts-from-ubuntu * https://askubuntu.com/questions/820746/remove-unused-fonts * https://askubuntu.com/questions/371213/how-to-delete-fonts-in-ubuntu * https://askubuntu.com/questions/1239037/removing-all-unnecessary-fonts-from-system * https://askubuntu.com/questions/978995/is-there-a-simple-way-for-uninstalling-fonts * https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=259109 * https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=297573 * https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=279672 * https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=339442 * https://askubuntu.com/questions/214950/how-can-i-remove-fonts-that-i-never-use-from-libreoffice-and-linux-in-general Removing some font packages solves part of the problem, but since `fonts-noto-core` bundles so many fonts together, users have no way of removing unwanted fonts from it. Can this package be broken up? An easy option, which I believe would cover 80% of the cases with far less than 20% of the effort, would be Latin vs. non-Latin. [1]: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php/77868-How-can-we-reduce-the-crapton-of-fonts-installed-by-default [2]: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/excessive-fonts-installed-by-default/20924/5?u=dandv [3]: https://ubuntu.com/desktop/statistics [4]: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433215 ** Affects: fonts-noto (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to fonts-noto in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916319 Title: Excessive number of disparate fonts bundled together To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-noto/+bug/1916319/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
