Noto fonts screw my system, please stop forcing fonts upon me!

[Mark Gaiser]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Kai Uwe Broulik <kde at privat.broulik.de>
wrote:

> ‎Hi,
>
> > It is a very hard forced dependency on that font.
>
> I'll send you a bigger hard drive for Christmas as you constantly complain
> about a few megs of dependencies without any runtime overhead. I'm glad
> that we enforce some rules on fonts in Plasma 5 as in the 4.x times it was
> usually just embarrassing.
>

I consider that to be one of the biggest issues in plasma.


>
> > and i'm not going to make bug reports about that.
>
> So don't expect anybody to fix your issues.
>

If i report font issues, nobody is looking at them anyway. See [1] for
oxygen.
Besides, this is a google font so i would have to report it against their
bug tracker (github in this case i guess?). But what if the thing i want to
report is not a bug at all? To mee, it just looks that way because it has
too much line spacing. But the font just seems to be that way so the font
itself is probably not the problem here. Just using it as desktop font is
the problem and _that_ is where plasma comes in.


>
> > It is the google font (noto) with the google browser (chromium) that
> mainly screws things up completely.
>
> So what?
>

If THAT combination isn't tested by google, then perhaps that combination
is not meant to used at all.

>
> > Either case should be sufficient reason to not use it in Plasma 5.
>
> To be honest, I still use Oxygen as I couldn't be bothered to change my
> settings. Anyway ‎line height looks okay'ish - if you really display that
> much continuous text anywhere that this matters, except an editor or help,
> you probably did something wrong.
>
>
Please join the discussion when you know what you're talking about.
It was visible on every web page. Even on gmail itself.

I'm not going to send you a screenshot. Just install the font and run
chromium. At first you will instantly notice the fonts looking weirdly
different with more space around them. Then you start noticing layout
breakage. Then you start wondering: "hmm, what screwed my system up this
time".. two days later you will figure out it's a font installed by plasma.



> Cheers,
> Kai Uwe
>
>
>
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[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332059
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