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[Eric Hedekar <1459525@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To me this is akin to saying that too many brushes are shipped with the
graphics package because your computer is too slow.

We shouldn't be decreasing functionality if after ~5+ years of shipping
that functionality we receive one user complaint.  If everyone was seeing
the slowdown, that'd be different.  I certainly haven't seen inkscape crash
due to font selection.

One easy way forward would be to adjust the font meta to only carry roman
character fonts and move the non-roman characters to a fonts-extra
package.  That would at least help the user's complaint.  Still, just
uninstalling the font meta would be a better solution for the user.  That
solution would keep the cross-cultural abilities of the distro.

-Eric

On 28 May 2015 3:05 pm, "Brian Hilmers" <bhilmers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello, I am the user who expressed concern about the fonts in Ubuntu
> Studio. I believe the volume of installed fonts is a problem, though a
> minor one in the scope of development. The first thing I do with a new
> installation is use Synaptec to remove anything that is universe or
> mulit-verse (I have no idea which fonts are necessary for Ubuntu core).
> This noticeably improves the loading time of graphics programs and stops
> Inkscape from crashing when selecting a typeface, which happens
> regularly with large a font list. In addition, the variety of included
> fonts is unbalanced, weighing heavily on the side of impractical display
> typefaces. It is quite overwhelming. I think better font organization
> would greatly improve the user experience.
>
> I like sakrecoer's idea of a better organized font manager with a
> limited number activated by default. Also, I would like to suggest
> adding an option to install different fonts in the Ubuntu Studio
> installer, much like how audio plug-ins are treated.
>
> Let me know if I can help. Thanks.
>
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Title:
  Amount of fonts distributed are too many - brings down loading time
  for applications

Status in Ubuntu Studio:
  New

Bug description:
  A user reported this issue the Ubuntu Studio contact mail, and I found it was a fair point.
  We should minimize the fonts we distribute to an amount which is reasonable.

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