Let's start with a a show of hands, has anyone ever needed the Noto Sans Anatolian Hieroglyphs font... ?
No?
K, then why is it installed by default with Kubuntu 20.04, and along with a gazillion other useless fonts? OK, maybe SOMEONE somewhere in the world needs it (maybe if they time travel a few thousand years), but this font gets installed even if you select US English in your regional settings at install time. And it gets installed along with a crapton of fonts from completely unrelated languages (e.g. Far East, if you installed Canada English).
I don't care about the disk space, but this makes selecting the font I want, a pain in the ass:
The problem has been annoying many people for many years:
* https://askubuntu.com/questions/8207...e-unused-fonts
* https://askubuntu.com/questions/2149...nux-in-general
* https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=259109
* https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=297573
* https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=279672
* https://superuser.com/questions/248844/how-do-you-remove-fonts-from-ubuntu
So, who can help fix this in the installer? A simple checkbox would be enough, "Install fonts for unrelated locales". That would prevent installing most of this bloat.
No?
K, then why is it installed by default with Kubuntu 20.04, and along with a gazillion other useless fonts? OK, maybe SOMEONE somewhere in the world needs it (maybe if they time travel a few thousand years), but this font gets installed even if you select US English in your regional settings at install time. And it gets installed along with a crapton of fonts from completely unrelated languages (e.g. Far East, if you installed Canada English).
I don't care about the disk space, but this makes selecting the font I want, a pain in the ass:
The problem has been annoying many people for many years:
* https://askubuntu.com/questions/8207...e-unused-fonts
* https://askubuntu.com/questions/2149...nux-in-general
* https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=259109
* https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=297573
* https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=279672
* https://superuser.com/questions/248844/how-do-you-remove-fonts-from-ubuntu
So, who can help fix this in the installer? A simple checkbox would be enough, "Install fonts for unrelated locales". That would prevent installing most of this bloat.
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