Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: fonts-noto (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916319
Title:
Excessive number of disparate fonts bundled together
Status in fonts-noto package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in fonts-noto package in Debian:
New
Bug description:
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
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https://askubuntu.com/questions/1239037/removing-all-unnecessary-fonts-from-system
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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
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