Part of the problem is that the standard Ubuntu install includes a large number of fonts for a large number of languages. For instance the arabeyes package installs a couple of dozen fonts or so. For someone who cannot read Arabic script there is little value in having more than one or two Arabic fonts installed--enough to recognise the language a web page is written in. The same applies for many of the Indic language fonts.
And since these font packs are all dependencies of ubuntu-desktop, uninstalling them via apt-get may cause problems when it comes to a system upgrade. I guess what I am saying is that there are in fact a number of interrelated problems to do with font packaging and font management that make the Ubuntu Gnome desktop a bit unwieldy. -- Gnome offers no way to manage fonts https://launchpad.net/bugs/66833 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
