Bug 140519 - Enhancment: Displayed Font Selection Option
Summary: Enhancment: Displayed Font Selection Option
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 91130
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
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3.3.0 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2021-02-18 20:33 UTC by Coburn Ingram
Modified: 2021-02-19 16:02 UTC (History)
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Description Coburn Ingram 2021-02-18 20:33:16 UTC
Description:
Under Ubuntu, all fonts installed on the system are displayed in the font dropdown. This is highly unfortunate, because Ubuntu by default installs international fonts automatically with some common packages. If the Noto font set is install, you literally have over 200 fonts added to your list. Fonts that you will never, ever use, but you have to scroll past anyway. This is an immense anti-feature and a waste of time.

My proposal is to have a dialog that opens in Options with a checkbox by each font so the end-user can decide if they want the font displayed in the dropdown list or not.

Alternatively, let's all lobby Ubuntu to stop installing fonts that are different from the fonts required by the L18N specified by the user when they install the OS.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Ubuntu and LO.
2. Optionally, try to install a package such as Java or Fontforge that has font dependencies. This step is not required since an initial install also has font dependencies.
3. Try to change your font.

Actual Results:
The problem is that LO has no mechanism to filter the font options displayed.

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Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



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Comment 1 Timur 2021-02-19 15:52:52 UTC
Most important is to search for existing bugs before posting. I mark as a duplicate. If not, please explain why and set Unconfirmed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 95207 ***
Comment 2 V Stuart Foote 2021-02-19 16:02:23 UTC
Thanks for filing. Has been a task for some time. 

@Timur, actually more a dupe of bug 91130 than of bug 95207 ;-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 91130 ***