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

[cpdrummond at freeuk.com]

On Wednesday 24 April 2002 8:08 pm, Thomas Diehl wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 24. April 2002 20:55 schrieb Waldo Bastian:
> > The first one selects fonts the other one installs fonts. I don't think
> > those two should be combined. (Although I considered it)
> >
> > I want to add a "Add Fonts" button to the font-selection dialog that
> > would start the font installer.
>
> Yes. That's about the conclusion another branch of this thread arrived at
> as well. (But I still think it could be considered to rename "Fonts" to
> "Screen Fonts".)
>
> > I understand now why you would like to have a directory listing in
> > there... Font-CD with 500 fonts, right?
>
> Right. (Corel even includes 1000+ of these with their bigger programs, each
> of them in an extra TrueType and a Type1 version. This is also the reason
> why I think all that grouping, activating, and deactivating could be handy.
> Just imagine someone to wade through a KWord font selection dialog with all
> this stuff actually installed and activated.)


Yeah I know - I got loads of TTFs when I downloaded PhotoPaint! One thing that 
bothers me is the KDE/Qt lists both Xft and X fonts, so each font appears at 
least twice! Why? Surely if the Xft one is available, then this is the one 
that should be used...

>
> Thomas


Craig.