FontInstaller (Was: Gnome Article on UI Design on /.)

[Waldo Bastian]

On Monday 22 April 2002 11:54 am, Thomas Zander wrote:
> While you are right in the moving part the feature is actually quite nice,
> but useless in its current implementation.
>
> The thing the author probably wanted to accieve is what the enable/disable
> action on the macOs (8 is the last I used) extention manager does.

Yes, that's waht I thoguht too.

> IMO a better solution would be to add a way to deactivate a font and add a
> list of deactivated fonts which can then be activated afterwards.

I thought to list all fonts with a checkmark in front of them, and then the 
disabled fonts don't have a checkmark.

> A good implementation would be to store the original position of the font
> (the subdir if you use the advanced GUI) and add a context menu to reenable
> it.

What is the point of the advanced GUI? I mean, there is something to say for 
being able to group your fonts but in the font-dialog they are all thrown 
together anyway. Why would you care about where the font is stored?

Cheers,
Waldo