[Bug 73501] Gnome has no way to install fonts

[Joseph Garvin]

Public bug reported:

The summary says it all. Gnome is completely lacking a font installer.
If you double click a ttf font, you can preview it, but no indication is
given to the user for how to get the font into applications. KDE already
does this out of the the box. On the wiki there are some instructions
explaining to create a .fonts folder and stick your fonts in there, but
this has issues:

1) Shouldn't be necessary in the first place
2) Isn't system wide, and to do so system wide requires using the terminal
3) Doesn't work for joe blow user because when he tries to create the .fonts folder Nautilus tells him it already exists, he looks for it but doesn't see it, and gives up using Ubuntu out of frustration (he doesn't see it because it's hidden, nautilus doesn't explain this either).

** Affects: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: Confirmed

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Gnome has no way to install fonts
https://launchpad.net/bugs/73501