Font Manager - Gnome

[Jerry Casiano]

Hello,

I'm not new to Ubuntu, but I'm not very familiar with the community, so I'm posting this here in the hope that some of the members of this list might find this application interesting or useful, and possibly even suggest that it be included in the repositories.
It would be nice for users to be able to install it through normal channels and not have to keep up with updates or deal with unsigned packages.

While still incomplete, I feel that it's at a point now where it's actually acceptable for an average desktop user. Anyone interested can grab the .deb or source from

http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/

But please keep in mind that this app is very young still and I am NOT an experienced developer. ;-)

That said, comments, opinions, criticism are always very welcome.





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[Smartboy]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Jerry Casiano <jerrycasiano@...> wrote:

Hello,

I'm not new to Ubuntu, but I'm not very familiar with the community, so I'm posting this here in the hope that some of the members of this list might find this application interesting or useful, and possibly even suggest that it be included in the repositories.
It would be nice for users to be able to install it through normal channels and not have to keep up with updates or deal with unsigned packages.

While still incomplete, I feel that it's at a point now where it's actually acceptable for an average desktop user. Anyone interested can grab the .deb or source from

http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/

But please keep in mind that this app is very young still and I am NOT an experienced developer. ;-)

That said, comments, opinions, criticism are always very welcome.





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One feature which I find all font managers outside of OSX's is the ability to view fonts from a folder besides the .fonts or /usr/share/fonts folder. Why would I need this? I keep most of my fonts outside of the default folders so they aren't loaded when an app starts, as I have a ton of them and it makes load times skyrocket. If you could implement that feature, that would make my life SO much easier than what I am having to do currently (split my fonts into 8 alternative .fonts folders and rename each one to go through the fonts).

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[Jerry Casiano]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Smartboy <smartboyathome@...> wrote:

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One feature which I find all font managers outside of OSX's is the ability to view fonts from a folder besides the .fonts or /usr/share/fonts folder. Why would I need this? I keep most of my fonts outside of the default folders so they aren't loaded when an app starts, as I have a ton of them and it makes load times skyrocket. If you could implement that feature, that would make my life SO much easier than what I am having to do currently (split my fonts into 8 alternative .fonts folders and rename each one to go through the fonts).

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If you open the application preferences ( center icon in lower left corner ) you can easily select different folders to scan for fonts, the app should then restart and you can now preview/use/activate/de-activate the fonts, removing folders is just as easy.

Is that what you had in mind?

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