Bug 169180 - Ability to filter-out some typefaces from the list
Summary: Ability to filter-out some typefaces from the list
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
26.2.0.0 alpha0+ master
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords: needsUXEval
Depends on:
Blocks: Font-List
  Show dependency treegraph
 
Reported: 2025-10-31 20:54 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2025-11-04 13:08 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description Eyal Rozenberg 2025-10-31 20:54:32 UTC
A user's list of available typefaces is typically quite large. One often has some entries in it which, while seeming appealing, end up being not what you're expected: 

* Low-quality
* named similarly to a font you really want but not actually that
* doesn't have glyphs for the language you wanted to use it for (especially before 151122 is resolved)
* has some/many glyphs for the language you wanted to use it for, but lacking others, or lacking some special features (e.g. alternative-style digit glyphs)

or whatever. It would be useful if I could tell LibreOffice: "Remove this typeface from my list and don't show it again".

UI-wise, this could happen via a right-click on entries in the font list in the font selection tab of the character format dialog; and the list could be managed via Tools > Options (as an app-scope choice, not document-scope or session-scope).
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2025-11-03 14:05:00 UTC
A: why do you install fonts that are unusable, and B: why don't you filter those out with tools from your OS/DE? I do so in KDE [1] for these millions of Noto variants.

-1 to reinvent the wheel.

[1] https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/plasma-workspace/kcontrol/fontinst/index.html
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-11-03 16:56:52 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> A: why do you install fonts that are unusable,
>
> B: why don't you filter
> those out with tools from your OS/DE? I do so in KDE [1] for these millions
> of Noto variants.

It's not that such fonts are unusable (otherwise, yes, I would just remove them altogether), it's that LibreOffice has the wrong notion about them. For example - putting them in the list of fonts relevant to a certain language group (or in the future - a certain specific language). Whether it is LO's "fault", or the font's "fault", I would like to remove it from that list without removing it from my system.
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2025-11-04 13:08:16 UTC
Please give a real-life example. "I want to use XYZs on the app(s) Foo* but not at LibreOffice." with a clear hint why it applies to many font to make this micromanaging necessary in LibreOffice. I shared my Noto* example and do definitely not want to fiddle around some other font list than what KDE offers me.