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| Robert Persson (ireneshusband) wrote Re: Gnome offers no way to manage fonts | #2 |
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Part of the problem is that the standard Ubuntu install includes a large number of fonts for a large number of languages. For instance the arabeyes package installs a couple of dozen fonts or so. For someone who cannot read Arabic script there is little value in having more than one or two Arabic fonts installed--enough to recognise the language a web page is written in. The same applies for many of the Indic language fonts.
And since these font packs are all dependencies of ubuntu-desktop, uninstalling them via apt-get may cause problems when it comes to a system upgrade.
I guess what I am saying is that there are in fact a number of interrelated problems to do with font packaging and font management that make the Ubuntu Gnome desktop a bit unwieldy.