>Noto fonts are known to provide many entries in font menus.
in fact I had to reinstall these fonts as they were used from the desktop
>Should be fine if avoiding only the *-extra packages (and the fonts-noto
>metapackage which recommends them)
This is true, but there is also a correlation with plasma/kde desktop because to work with the noto fonts installed it was necessary:
- remove fonts-noto-extra, fonts-noto-ui-extra, fonts-noto-cjk-extra
- keep fonts-noto-color-emoji, fonts-noto-ui-core, fonts-noto-unhinted, fonts-noto-core, fonts-noto-color-emoji, fonts-noto-mono, fonts-noto-cjk, fonts-noto-hinted
- modify the characters on plasma/kde, selecting a different fonts in the "general" and "menu" items (for ex: dejavu sans): if on one of these items there is "noto" the bug occurs again.
or completely remove the known fonts and re-index the fonts, but in this case the desktop changes its appearance...
so, for now, I have restored the for fonts