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

[cpdrummond at freeuk.com]

On Monday 22 April 2002 8:45 pm, Thomas Diehl wrote:
> Am Montag, 22. April 2002 21:25 schrieb Waldo Bastian:
> > 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?
>
> In the Advanced Mode (which was originally the default) you can create
> extra subdirs and decide where the font is actually stored. The "throw
> together mode" was added on special request because some people found the
> original "Adobe Type Manager" like GUI to complex.
>
> Font grouping/management was planned for the stand-alone version, AFAIK.

Hey? Font grouping management is done via creating subdirs, and then these can 
be enabled/disabled. Xft will use all fonts in a directory, as far as I'm 
aware there's no easy way to disable particular fonts (which there would be 
with normal X).

But I'll agree that the "Basic" mode is pretty useless - I myselft never 
really use it, and it was only added (as you say) because the advanced mode 
can appear slightly confusing.

>
> Thomas

Craig.