Re: Debian, so ugly and unwieldy!
On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 10:57:17PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Adam Borowski - 07.06.19, 21:09:
> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 11:24:03AM -0700, James Lu wrote:
> > > 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.
It's not nice to drop language support.
I guess it'be nice to contact upstream and/or patch it in our packages.
I don't think there's a reason for the user to manually select a particular
writing script, fontconfig is supposed to do the work automatically.
Meow!
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