Font Questions

[volvoguy]

On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 21:28:58 +1100, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at canonical.com> wrote:

> I want to make this location more obvious. Perhaps putting it on the
> first level 'Fonts' preferences dialogue would be a start. Anyway, this
> kind of stuff is best done upstream, given that we're right in the thick
> of the GNOME development process too. (Adding another icon in Desktop
> Preferences would be crap.)

Thanks for the reply Jeff. I'm pretty familiar with how the font stuff
is *supposed* to work, but the reason I asked is because it *doesn't*
work. I didn't know if it was something to be fixed, or if you guys
had something completely different planned.

I'm able to open the fonts folder, and drag fonts into it. I guess one
thing that was throwing me is that the fonts dragged there don't show
up there. I had to open up another window, tell it to show hidden
files, and double click on ~/.fonts - and I wouldn't have thought to
do that if you didn't mention it.

It sounds like the "double click to preview" fonts thing is supposed
to work too, but apparently I'm seeing the same thing you are:

"Couldn't display "fonts:///Bitstream%20Vera%20Sans%20Mono"."


I understand about the "were do we put the fonts" issue too. Currently
the "Desktop Preferences" menu is like the option you can turn on in
Windows to display the "Control Panel" items in the start menu.
Ubuntu's menus behave a lot better already (faster and better
organized). Personally I see two different issues here - setting
system fonts, and "font management". The fonts item in desktop
preferences is where it should be, but the "font management" could
easily go somewhere in the Applications menu. In other OS's this is a
third-party app task - like Bitstream or Adobe. Just a thought. :-)




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Aaron

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