There are already many free fonts available for ubuntu.
Unfortunately, many of them are incomplete. There must be an easier way to display and remove bad fonts from a system.
I know that there is the "gnome-specimen" software tool which finds most fonts installed on the machine, and which can display selected fonts on the screen. However, this little software tool is not good enough.
Here is a rationale for this, given in brainstorm mode.
Note that I am a German user, and my generic test sentence is not "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
but
"Zwölf Boxkämpfer jagen Viktor quer über den großen Sylter Deich."
When you try a sentence like this, it is immediately obvious that many fonts don't even have umlauts such as "ä", "ü", "Ü", or sharp-s "ß" etc. Thus these fonts are completely useless to me. I would like to get rid of them. Or I'd like to annotate or tag them. Create something like a short-list of prefrered fonts.
Or maybe fonts should come with a rich set of metadata. Which can be browsed.
Moreover I would prefer to not even have such fonts installed in the first place.
I think this has quite a few implications for the Ubuntu and the Open Office installers. Perhaps it can be done, though.
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