Bug 18875 - drakfont doesn't let me choose which fonts to uninstall
Summary: drakfont doesn't let me choose which fonts to uninstall
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia tools maintainers
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Whiteboard: MGA8TOO MGA9TOO
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Reported: 2016-07-06 00:06 CEST by Aurélien Murith
Modified: 2023-10-28 22:58 CEST (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Aurélien Murith 2016-07-06 00:06:33 CEST 
If you want to uninstall one or more fonts, drakfont does not help much.

Although there is an «uninstall» button, using it just opens a window listing the folders in /usr/share/fonts, allowing me to delete one or more folders.

The problem is, I do not know what to delete there in order to remove the fonts I want to.

Please make possible to uninstall a font easily, something like [right-click] --> "Uninstall".

Furthermore, drakfont has an option to import MS-Windows fonts, but it cannot do the opposite (removing those fonts when not needed anymore). Could this be improved ?

Thanks.
Thierry Vignaud 2016-07-06 13:45:26 CEST

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Source RPM: (none) => drakxtools

Samuel Verschelde 2016-10-31 15:14:15 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools

Aurélien Murith 2017-02-28 11:30:10 CET

Version: 5 => Cauldron

Comment 1 Sébastien Morin 2019-08-25 11:01:40 CEST 
Still valid for Mga7 and the current Cauldron

CC: (none) => sebsweb
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA7TOO

Comment 2 Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2023-10-28 22:58:33 CEST 
I agree, this is a royal pain. I wanted to remove one font, but drakfont suggests to remove a whole directory instead. That's not the desired effect and it's pretty dangerous. To me, this is a bug.

Severity: enhancement => normal
CC: (none) => LpSolit
Summary: Uninstalling fonts using drakfont is unpractical => drakfont doesn't let me choose which fonts to uninstall
Whiteboard: MGA7TOO => MGA8TOO MGA9TOO
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