https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115441
Bug ID: 115441
Summary: LOO uninstaller removes the fonts bundled with LOO
from the operating system
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.4.4.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: Windows (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: fabien.fel...@gmail.com
Description:
LOO 5.4.4.2 -> LOO 6.0.0.3 - 64bits - Windows 10
As shown here:
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/144640/what-happened-to-open-sans/
it seems that LOO uninstaller removes the fonts bundled with LOO from the
system. Indeed, I updated to the new LOO 6.0.0.3 from LOO 5.4.4.2. For that, I
used the LOO 5.4.4.2 uninstaller and then use the LOO 6.0.0.3 installer. On LOO
6.0, the fonts 'Open Sans' and 'PT serif' has been removed from the LOO fonts
bundle. So, at the end, the update process just silently removed my Open Sans
and PT serif fonts from my operating system. Note that those fonts were fonts
that I installed manually, they were existing on my system before any LOO
installation.
So, I am not arguing with the choice of removing Open Sans or PT serif from the
LOO fonts bundle. Nevertheless, the point I really want to highlight here is
that LibreOffice.org uninstaller (ie future LOO uninstallers) should not remove
any fonts from the system without prompting. This is not a nice practice for
the people who use those fonts with other software: suddenly, some fonts are
gone and the users might not relate the root-cause with a LOO update or LOO
uninstall process.
I can understand that the LOO team would prefer an uninstaller that does not
ask anything to the user. But in that case, the default behavior of the
uninstaller should be to keep fonts on the system.
Does this proposal sound reasonable?
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install LOO 5.4.4.2
2. Check that Open Sans and PT serif fonts are there
3. Uninstall LOO 5.4.4.2
4. Install LOO 6.0.0.3
5. Open sans and PT serif fonts are not present on the Windows OS anymore
6. This tends to show that LOO uninstaller removes fonts bundles with LOO
Actual Results:
LOO uninstaller removes fonts bundles with LOO.
Expected Results:
LOO uninstaller should not remove fonts bundles with LOO (this is a personal
opinion)
Reproducible: Didn't try
User Profile Reset: No
OpenGL enabled: Yes
Additional Info:
Version: 6.0.0.3 (x64)
Build ID: 64a0f66915f38c6217de274f0aa8e15618924765
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL;
Locale: fr-CH (fr_CH); Calc: group
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/58.0
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