https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433215
Bug ID: 433215
Summary: Regression: can no longer delete or disable unwanted
fonts
Product: systemsettings
Version: 5.21.0
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: kcm_fontinst
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: ddascalescu+...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
Created attachment 135878
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KDE neon 5.21 ships with a ridiculous number of completely irrelevant Noto
fonts (hieroglyphic, cuneiform etc.). In KDE 5.18 I was able to remove them. In
5.21, I get an error that every single one of them does not actually exist.
The problem is that this list of exotic fonts clutters the font selector in
applications (LibreOffice etc.), and makes it a pain in the ass to select the
font I want.
Why are fonts in all sorts of non-Latin alphabets installed to begin with, when
I selected US English in the installer? Are they some variants of Noto that
can't be separated from the useful ones? Bundling them together seems like a
patch for a very corner case in which a user needs Egyptian Hieroglyphs and
Mayan Numerals, rather than a solution, but I guess that's an issue for a
different component.
The issue here is that I *was* able to delete these fonts in 5.18, and now I'm
not. Trying to disable them results in the same error. I'm stuck with that long
list of crap on a daily basis, in all applications that have a font selector
:-/
Combined with bug 433166, this makes it a net worse experience to have upgraded
from 5.18.5.
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