Re: Debian, so ugly and unwieldy!

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Adam Borowski - 07.06.19, 21:09:
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 11:24:03AM -0700, James Lu wrote:
[…]
> > > * default font is ugly and poorly hinted -- the latter is
> > > especially jarring> > 
> > >   on a low-resolution screen I'm at right now, the former still
> > >   applies to one's proper battlestation at home/work.  Tarzeau
> > >   recently had some interesting rants, but even Quicksand that
> > >   recently got added (during hard freeze...) to desktop-base is
> > >   pretty nice.  Or, if you want something more conventional,
> > >   Clear Sans (Intel Clear).  Or, Inter.  Or...
> > >   
> > >   => Actually configure a good font by default.  Quicksand looks
> > >   fine.
> > 
> > I use Noto Sans, which supports a lot of languages out of the box
> > and is the default in at least Cinnamon AFAIK.
> 
> Noto has one technical problem: it registers hundreds of font family
> ones, making font selection dialogs useless if you have Noto
> installed.
> 
> It'd be better if we had just "Noto Sans", "Noto Serif" and "Noto
> Mono" instead of "Noto Southwestern Reformed Klingon" as a separate
> family.

Also if you remove packages

- fonts-noto-extra
- fonts-noto-ui-extra
- fonts-noto-cjk
- fonts-noto-cjk-extra#

?

I just did so here and font selection requester is much more palatable 
than before.

Still installed are:

- fonts-noto
- fonts-noto-color-emoji
- fonts-noto-core
- fonts-noto-hinted
- fonts-noto-mono
- fonts-noto-ui-core
- fonts-noto-unhinted

For certain locale selections during installation it might be necessary 
to install more than that.

Ciao,
-- 
Martin