https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150481
--- Comment #19 from Munzir Taha <munzirt...@gmail.com> --- Salaam, another native Arabic user opinion on LibreOffice on Linux specifically. I very much appreciate all your efforts so don't take any disagreement as personal. First, I am strongly against adding fonts in LibreOffice or any application for people to use. LibO should only include a font which is essential for its internal working or templates if there is such a thing. Mostly, that's unnecessary and it's enough to use generic names like sans, serif, mono, .... Which fonts are installed and preferred by the user would be done on the OS-level through a font management application. This approach saves space, avoids duplication and conflicts, relieves the apps from updating fonts, allow personal fonts and system fonts, ... What fonts users choose as defaults for all their applications is not the business of each application either. It's the job of fontconfig in GNU/Linux to handle this. There are thousands of applications and if each of (libreoffice, inkscape, gimp, firefox, chromium, calibre ...) would include their selection of fonts and then ask their userbase to choose a default font for each and every language, it's a mess, and waste of time and resources. Why would a Japanese user has Arabic fonts in his system against his willing and vice versa. Currently I use LibO in ArchLinux which is wisely built using --without-fonts. I am not sure what's the current fallback mechanism. If it's hardcoded then this is a bug that should be fixed by using aliases. (In reply to خالد حسني from comment #14) > (KACST knows nothing about them and I had no luck finding > anyone who knows anything about them Actually, I know a lot about those fonts. I was working with KACST during that time. I know most of the people involved but this is 15 years ago! The fonts served a good purpose at that time and one of the first which are bundled with distros. Currently, the situation, the experience and the tools are much better so no need to waste time reviving them and I definitely agree with you to drop them, but also the rest. (In reply to Waleed Mortaja from comment #15) > Unfortunately, The number of Arabic users of libreoffice is not very high to > begin with, at least in my environment. Can you provide me with links for > the libreoffice Arabic communities? Because LibO still has some serious and annoying issues. When users choose a font explicitly, LibO ignores it (issue #62063), and we are discussing what to choose for the user ;) . Also, none of the fonts here are good enough for any serious publishing but that is another story. The point is we need to work on these issues before people would take it seriously. Someone should hire Khaled Hosney for a 1-year contract full time and he can fix them all inshallah ;) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
