https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103080
--- Comment #7 from Yousuf Philips (jay) <philip...@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. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list Libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise
