Am Freitag, den 08.02.2019, 17:53 +0100 schrieb Adam Borowski: > But, there is a different kind of bloat. Having too many fonts is a thing, > thus I wonder about kicking Noto off the list -- for some reason it presents > every single of its ranges as a separate family, making font selection > dialogs quite unusable. Indeed, fonts-noto turns every font selection dialog into The Big Noto Show. > -- not sure about that -- if you pick fonts on your own, you can just > install them without this metapackage. I suggested to use Recommends relations so I could get rid of fonts- noto, to be honest. ;) > -- only font that provides the text presentation for emojis. Cool. I somehow mistook this as another replica of the Symbol font installed with Windows. Unfortunately, upstream recently changed the license for this one to something non-free, so we should probably keep eyes open for an alternative. > -- good point, need to take a look at Unicode coverage though. Probably not that much of a striking point for a monospaced font, though? > -- that's the "emoji presentation"; less likely to work than text > presentation but the font has wider coverage than symbola. Good to have > both I guess. I don't exactly understand the difference, I am afraid. Both fonts have certain glyphs representing emojis at certain Unicode code points, right? > * would it be good to consider kicking Noto out, for making font selection > in most program crowded to the point of uselessness? Either this, or changing Depends to Recommends. Or changing Depends to Recommends only for fonts-noto. > * are there fonts you'd want in for non-functional reasons? I'd like to see some decorational fonts, e.g. fonts-comic-neue. But this is where things get really subjective. Also, I always have fonts-hack and fonts-firacode installed, one for the terminal and one for the editor. They fit these roles perfectly, I think -- but others may feel different, of course. Thanks for your work on this so far! Cheers, -- Fabian
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