We currently ship numerous font families on aurora, with at least 4 provided on our non-dx images and 11 more fonts on our -dx images.
We understand that users may currently using these fonts, and may value these being preinstalled on aurora as part of its “batteries-included” nature. However, we recently added the flatpaks for Embellish(Nerd Fonts) and Font Downloader which provide simple ways for users to install their preferred fonts on -dx and non-dx.
We would greatly appreciate your thoughts on if/which fonts you use that are provided or if you would prefer installing your fonts manually with the above mentioned flatpaks.
I’d argue having some different fonts baked into the system doesn’t hurt especially with how tiny font packages are. Gives some customization options that work across users without needing to add at an individual level yet still have the ability to add more as wanted.
Looks like the removal action was already performed in the following commit:
Fair enough, I can understand that. As far as what we’ve done, we’ve currently just removed the Ubuntu font and switched over the Intel one font into a rpm from a copr instead of shipping the TTF files. No other fonts have been affected.
AFAIK the Ubuntu fonts were added for bluefin when aurora/bluefin had a combined repo.
I have no problem at all with some fonts being preinstalled as part of the “batteries included” model. I prefer it actually, and fonts barely take up a smidgen of memory.
I don’t really even mind which packs are preinstalled, it’s just nice to have a choice of fonts from the start, so I don’t have to go looking for them. It’s one less thing to do after setting up a new install.
It’s one thing to have a lot of fonts preinstalled, but they clutter up the menus of graphics programs, and a way to remove them should be provided. I really don’t want to wade through 200 serif fonts and 200 sans fonts in various languages. Unfortunately, setting up custom font sets for different graphics progams is not easy nor always an option. NOTO are the worst offenders.
If Linux is going to become more useful to graphic artists, this font issue needs to be addressed.
It’s a problem with the immutable system. I can clean out fonts on any non-immutable distro using one of the font tools. Not possible on Aurora. Shame, because it would be a great base system otherwise.
