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

[Waldo Bastian]

On Monday 22 April 2002 01:05 pm, cpdrummond at freeuk.com wrote:
> 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).

There can be two directories "fonts" and "disabled-fonts" and disabling a font 
would mean moving it from "fonts" to "disabled-fonts".

E.g. you could have:

share/fonts/TrueType/foo.ttf
share/fonts/disabled/TrueType/bar.ttf

And that could be shown to the user as:

[v] TrueType/foo.ttf
[ ] TrueType/bar.ttf

Cheers,
Waldo