[Bug 66833] Re: Gnome offers no way to manage fonts

[Robert Persson]

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.

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Gnome offers no way to manage fonts
https://launchpad.net/bugs/66833