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Bug 128400 - Add an "Install Font" option when right-clicking font-file in nautilus [Usability Bug]
Add an "Install Font" option when right-clicking font-file in nautilus [Usabi...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-font-viewer
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-font-viewer-maint
gnome-font-viewer-maint
: 581058 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-12-02 23:38 UTC by John Ericson
Modified: 2012-04-30 23:42 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description John Ericson 2003-12-02 23:38:50 UTC
[Usability Bug]
[Should perhaps be filed to nautilus]

Some people that have used gnome for some time, still are not aware of how
to install fonts (they arent aware of fonts:///) such as .ttf files for
example. I have seen this in some discussions on the gnomedesktop.org site.

The way I expected it to work and I find intuitive is to have an option in
the menu you get when you right-click on the font-file in nautilus. I have
seen nautilus-cd-burner do this for .iso files so I know its doable. This
option would be called "Install Font" and by clicking on it the font would
be installed in the ~/.fonts directory and available to all programs.

In #125704 a similar sollution is proposed but I think the way I proposed
is more useful since it should give the user the possibility to select
several font-files at the same time and right-click and choose "Install
Font" to install them all directly.
Comment 1 Allan Day 2010-07-05 15:22:45 UTC
*** Bug 581058 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-11-04 08:56:10 UTC
-> gnome-utils

gnome-font-viewer has now moved to gnome-utils, reassigning.
Comment 3 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-04-30 23:42:26 UTC
We have an install button now in the application; I don't think an additional Nautilus extension would improve things further.