[Gimp-user] Unused fonts

[TimH <forums gimpusers com>]

Thank you for your suggestions. I actually used a script to actually delete the
font files, so I think they genuinely are moved at an OS level.

> It is pretty likely Windows doesn't delete fonts, but marks them as
> hidden. This may not be reflected in the list of fonts available to
> GIMP, if fontconfig - the library used to list and categorize fonts -
> either does not support this yet, or is not configured to do so.
>
> We got a similar bug report about fonts not being used due to language
> settings:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641808
>
>
> What we need is for someone using the affected platform (or caring
> very
> much about it) to figure out how fontconfig can be made to honor these
> settings and/or the font state (i.e. them being hidden or not,
> respectively).
>
> This could be a configuration setting, or may require a code change in
> this library. Blacklisting arbitrary fonts based on some of their
> feature is possible, so this might be a matter of finding something
> these fonts have in common that is also recognized and understood by
> fontconfig.

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