[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 91886] Make font installation optional

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91886

--- Comment #10 from João Paulo <joaopauloag-freedesktop@yahoo.com.br> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #9)
> We should only distribute fonts with LibreOffice that are needed by
> LibreOffice, and distribute them unconditionally.

I think the OpenSymbol font is needed by LibreOffice, because it uses the
symbols on the Math component and also the templates use it for the bulleted
lists, and also the following font families are needed by LibreOffice to ease
interoperability:  Liberation (Sans / Sans Narrow / Serif / Mono), Caladea and
Carlito.  **Everything else is unneeded and I agree with you.**

But I don't agree that these fonts should be distributed unconditionally, as:

1) There are people/systems administrators who manages the installed fonts to
keep them installed on the system to a minimum (LibreOffice would be another
software installing unneeded/unwanted fonts);

2) Not everyone needs interoperability by default, as fonts can be embedded on
the .odt files and people may need to send only PDF files instead of the source
files (for example, my interoperability workflow is with PDFs with embedded
fonts or with, unfortunately, .docx files using only fonts preinstalled with
Windows if the other party needs to edit them).

Maybe my Comment #8 is way too complex to implement, as each font family would
be made an optional feature on the .MSI package, but keeping the fonts
distributed with LibreOffice to a bare minimum as on this Comment
(OpenSymbol/Liberation/Caladea/Carlito) **and** making them (individually or as
a group) as optional features installed by default could be a useful
compromise.

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