Sometimes, you open a document, start working on it, and realize you want to use a font that's not installed right now - or that the document uses such a font, which you would like to install. So, you go online, download that font somehow (or maybe use your package manager), and install it. On Windows, that's right-clicking the font file and choosing "Install"; on Linux, it's copying it somewhere fontconfig knows about, and running fc-cache -fv (as root? probably) . So, you've done that. Now you want to use that new font! ... sadly, your open LO session doesn't recognize it, since it loaded fonts at startup. It would be nice if it could: * Note, or register to be notified, of a change to the set of cached fonts/typefaces. * Reload its set of available fonts upon such notice * Repaint/re-layout the document using the new set of available fonts
The alternative, of course, is shutting down LibreOffice - closing all currently open documents - and bringing it up again. Possible, but a bit annoying. Also, if this is implemented, there should probably an opt-out preference somewhere.
Yes, it would be nice if relevant changes on the OS/DE are recognized and usable without a restart. But "nice to have" and therefore minor enhancement.