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huwshimi
November 17th, 2005, 06:47 AM
It would be really nice to have GUI's for everything, and one basic GUI that is missing is for installing fonts. It surprises me that this is not already a basic feature of Gnome. And while I don't mind the 'sudo nautilus' option, this is not for everyone.

My problem is that I can not program in any advanced languages, and do not have the time at the moment to learn. If someone would like an easy project, please, PLEASE have a look at this one.

I did have a little play around in Glade and came up with the attached design. It needs work, but it is a beginning for someone to finish off.

If someone already knows of a good program (I mean nice to look at, simple etc.) then can they please get it built into Gnome. Or if there is a better place to post this let me know.

Thank you all very much for taking the time to read this.

EDIT: This post is now also on the gnomesupport.org forums http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10121
kperkins
November 17th, 2005, 09:49 AM
I know it's not what you're looking for, but KDE has a nice font installer/manager (as part of the control panel). That is one thing that I miss in Gnome, because I'm a font junky, and it's a pain to manually install a font every time I download one. (Well it's not that bad as far as single fonts, just open a terminal and "sudo mv *.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts/", but when migrating from my windows box it was much easier to do it through KDE.)

By the way, you may be better off posting this to the Gnome developers forum, or the bugzilla, esp. since you have a nice mock up of what you want.
rmjokers
November 17th, 2005, 09:56 AM
At some point in the past you could copy the fonts to the ~/.fonts directory and they would automatically be added to the font registry. This would eliminate the need for sudo, but only makes the fonts available to a single user. Is this functionality no longer available?
nagilum
November 17th, 2005, 12:20 PM
At some point in the past you could copy the fonts to the ~/.fonts directory and they would automatically be added to the font registry. This would eliminate the need for sudo, but only makes the fonts available to a single user. Is this functionality no longer available?
It still works.
rwabel
November 18th, 2005, 04:27 PM
It would be really nice to have GUI's for everything, and one basic GUI that is missing is for installing fonts. It surprises me that this is not already a basic feature of Gnome. And while I don't mind the 'sudo nautilus' option, this is not for everyone.

My problem is that I can not program in any advanced languages, and do not have the time at the moment to learn. If someone would like an easy project, please, PLEASE have a look at this one.

I did have a little play around in Glade and came up with the attached design. It needs work, but it is a beginning for someone to finish off.

If someone already knows of a good program (I mean nice to look at, simple etc.) then can they please get it built into Gnome. Or if there is a better place to post this let me know.

Thank you all very much for taking the time to read this.
have a look at my blog entry about font stuff: http://ralph.n3rds.net/index.php?/archives/40-Fonts.html