GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 495510
enable gnome-font-viewer to install fonts
Last modified: 2009-11-16 23:59:08 UTC
This is a patch to enable gnome-font-viewer to graphically install fonts to fonts://. It does three main things: * Add "Install" and "Close" buttons to the bottom of the window. The install button shows a confirm dialog and then uses Gnome-VFS to copy the font to fonts://, followed by exec'ing fc-cache. * Add an --install command line option which bypasses the viewing window, and only asks the user to confirm the install. * Allows g-f-v to open multiple fonts in a tabbed interface. If only one font is opened, then it hides the tabs. Known issues: * Installs fonts to the user's ~/.fonts, currently unable to install to the system fonts folder. * Does not extend nautilus's menu to provide support for new features. (Currently looking into).
Created attachment 98857 [details] [review] enable gnome-font-viewer to install fonts
Hi, thanks for your patch. IMO g-f-v is the wrong place to add font installation, though, and the font tab in the appearance capplet would be a better fit. (Note, however, that the fonts tab and its layout/features have long been under discussion (bug 160547)). Also, this is a duplicate of bug 86598.
Isn't it a great place to put it? when you download a font and open it (which may be a single operation) you get to see what it looks like and can immediately poke an Install button which copes it to ~/.fonts/ Having to go System->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts->Install and then find the font I've just downloaded, would be pretty tedious IMO (although I'm not arguing against it being in both places, for maximal ease of use)
Totally agree with Chris's point of view, g-f-v is the place to do this, it is just what a user will do when downloading a font. Link to Launchpad discussion on this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-control-center/+bug/389657 Link to hbons-blog discussion on this: http://www.bomahy.nl/hylke/blog/adding-fonts-in-gnome/
This has been fixed for a whie now.