Font Library: add option to delete an individual variant

[annezazu]

Pulling from the FSE Outreach Program's Final Touches call for testing:

Still in the font library, would it be possible to have an option to delete certain font variants/weights? This case came up when adding Google Fonts where the font weights are downloaded individually and currently there’s no way to uninstall a specific weight. I understand that this problem could be circumvented by uploading a single file variable font (.ttf) instead. Unfortunately, this can only be done manually. IMO, it would be nice to have the Site Editor font library to be able to download single file variable fonts directly from Google.

Right now, there's not a way to fully remove a single variant beyond deactivating it.

[afercia]

Raising this issue to bug, as the deletion process so far deletes all fonts even when the user intent is to delete only one or a few variants. I'm not sure what the purpose of the checkboxes for the variant is when deleting in the first place.

Checkboxes communicate user they can make a selection of variants and only delete the selected ones. Instead, regardless of the actual selection, all variants get deleted.

To reproduce:

• Install a few variants of a Google font, for example 'Alexandria' 100, 200, 300, and 400.
• Close the Fonts modal dialog an reopen it, just in case.
• In the library tab, click the Alexandria font.
• You are now in the font details 'sub view'. By default, the 4 variants will be all checked.
• Uncheck all variants but Alexandria 200.
• As the UI allows me to do that, as a user I understand I can uninstall variants selectively.
• Click Delete. A confirm dialog opens.
• Observe the confirm dialog text does say 'Are you sure you want to delete ... and all its variants and assets'. However, I'd argue users may miss this detail. Screenshot:

• Click Delete again in the confirm dialog.
• The confirm dialog closes and the Font library refreshes.
• Observe the Alexandria font has been completely uninstalled. All variants are now gone.

I'm not sure this is a good user experience. Actually, the user interface allows to perform an action that leads to an unexpected result. I'm not sure what the purpose of the checkboxes in the delete flow is.

[annezazu]

@matiasbenedetto for consideration ^

[matiasbenedetto]

Thanks for the ping.

Removing individual font faces was not part of the mockups. I think this needs some design feedback. Pinging @jasmussen for consideration.

[jasmussen]

Can we make the delete button contextual to the checkboxes?

[skorasaurus]

can confirm this is the case in Gutenberg 18.0.0; WP 6.5; and unfortunately, they are still listed even if you delete the font files through the command line (wherever the font files are stored) as reported in #58375