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List:       kde-release-team
Subject:    Re: Noto font for Plasma 5.5
From:       Eric Hameleers <alien () slackware ! com>
Date:       2015-10-16 18:38:11
Message-ID: alpine.LNX.2.02.1510161132330.8400 () connie ! slackware ! com
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2015, Jonathan Riddell wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:38:58AM -0700, Eric Hameleers wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Oct 2015, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > 
> > > The Plasma team plan to switch to Noto for Plasma 5.5
> > > 
> > > https://www.google.com/get/noto/
> > > 
> > > Distros will need packages of it. Let me know if anyone has problems with this
> > > 
> > > Jonathan
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> > Almost 500 MB download for these fonts? I surely hope that you only
> > want to use a small subset. I will have a problem in Slackware
> > otherwise - 500 MB add-on just for some fonts will meet with a veto
> > in the distro.
> 
> I think that's the source for the complete set.  The Latin languge set is under 1 \
> MB and the complete set minus CJK is 13MB as packaged in Ubuntu. 
> Jonathan
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The 469 MB ZIP file contains 131 TTF fonts and 36 OTF fonts - no 
source, only actual fonts.
I think it will be good if you are *very* specific about the exact 
Noto fonts you expect distributions to carry.

Cheers, Eric

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Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>
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