Hi ! If you give a look at your OpenOffice.org Writer fonts list, you will notice that it starts with 40 fonts whose names begin with "ae_". These fonts are designed for Arabic, Japanese, etc. character sets, and thus aren't really interesting for others charsets. They all look quite the same, and they double the size of the list, impeding the user who is searching for a nice font for him (there are much, but at the end of the list). There are other fonts in the list that are designed for specific languages ("ttf-*" packages).
Since Ubuntu has a nice localisation management, I suggest we add the fonts to the language-pack-* packages' "Recommends", and not to ubuntu-desktop's. We still need to be able to print Unicode characters: this can be done using FreeFonts and DejaVu. Then, most of fonts should be installed following what the user requests. Any occidental language support should install Latin fonts, and Chinese chinese fonts... The only common fonts should be 2 or 3 large Unicode support fonts. When a user wants to use a language, (s)he installs the language support and gets the fonts. Maybe the Language support tool could use a column more, "Font support only", to avoid installing all translations. This way, you can select easily nice and relevant fonts, and we may install more oringinal fonts. Am I saying something stupid here ? ;-) Do you think this is worth a spec ? Milan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss