https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90801

--- Comment #11 from Yousuf (Jay) Philips <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Yury from comment #10)
> It will remain complicated, even with this option gone. What would you
> expect to be there -- one checkbox? :)
> Summing up, there was a convenient feature, now it'll be gone. But what's
> one more inconvenience?

Yes i dont think its worth ripping things out of this complicated dialog, but
instead to have an easy mode for regular users. (bug 90989)

> What really would benefit from simplification is fonts' processing.
> I've browsed the respective part of the LO source a couple of years ago --
> wanting to (1) know why raster fonts are not allowed (on linux) to be used
> as UI font in LO, and to (2) know why font lists in styles have no influence
> on glyph substitution. 
> 
> And I couldn't make heads nor tails of it. I bet developers are afraid of
> touching this code, either. :)

Well the devs are aware of how difficult it maybe to fix such problems, so that
is something i leave to them to decide.

> If you have some say in it, Jay, please, kindly have a look into the
> (closed/notourproblem) #56076.

I'm not a dev so i dont really have anything to say about the technical issues
discussed in that bug report, but the devs listed in their are quite
knowledgeable and have been working on the code for many years.

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