Re: [Gimp-user] Unused fonts

[Mark Morin <mdmpsyd gwi net>]

On 11/23/2016 5:12 PM, TimH wrote:
> 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.

The OS doesn't delete fonts, it uninstalls them. There's a difference.
If you go to you fonts folder in c:\windows\fonts you will see a listing
(or graphical icon). Select a font and you will see the option to delete
it. The font gets uninstalled (registry reference is deleted too). If
you write a script to delete a font, you are using the OS's delete
command which doesn't unregister the font.

> > 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.