LibreOffice font and icon package dependencies
Hello LibreOffice package maintainers,
I volunteer with the libreoffice design team and have recently been
looking at its font selection. So i looked at the libreoffice package in
ubuntu and wanted to suggest some changes be made related to fonts.
* Liberation Fonts (fonts-liberation) are the default fonts used in
libreoffice so they should be set to be a required dependency of
libreOffice core (libreoffice-core), rather than a recommended
dependency in the libreoffice meta package (libreoffice).
* Deja Vu Fonts (fonts-dejavu) and Gentium Fonts
(fonts-sil-gentium-basic) are set as required package of the meta
package when they should be required package of libreoffice core, as it
is possible to install selected parts of libreoffice without using the
meta package.
* C-Fonts (fonts-crosextra-caladea, fonts-crosextra-carlito), MS Core
Fonts (ttf-mscorefonts-installer) and Linux Libertine Fonts
(fonts-linuxlibertine) should be set as recommended dependencies for
libreoffice core.
* TDF builds of libreoffice since 4.0 ship with additional fonts like
Open Sans, PT Serif, Source Code Pro and Source Sans Pro, but i didnt
see packages for any of these.
Also wanted to give you guys a heads up that we will be changing the
default set of installed fonts and you can following this discussion at
the link below.
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103080
When it comes to icons, 5.3 will be shipping a breeze dark icon theme
which when packaged should have a dependency for the standard breeze
icon theme, similar to sifr.
Kind Regards,
Yousuf Philips
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