nautilus

[Donn]

> nautilus fonts://
>
You can also use konqueror, go to fonts:/
You get the choice of system or personal.

System is all the fonts that Linux knows about - i.e. that are collected by 
the fontconfig system. Personal (as far as I know) are the fonts in ~/.fonts

> I open another nautilus window looking at the TrueType fonts
> available from WinXP.  
>
If I may ask, how did you do this? How did you see the fonts "available" from 
XP? Did you point nautilus at the fonts folder under windows?

I ask because I was looking for a way to view *arbitrary* (i.e. non-installed) 
fonts and could not find a way under Linux, so I wrote Fonty Python to do so. 
With Fonty Python (FP) you can view any ttf file, anywhere. ( am expanding it 
to view Type1 and OTF files too.)

Now, if nautilus can do this already, then viva Nautilus and I'd like to 
experiment with that.

FP also let's you manage the fonts and install/uninstall them as you need to.

> So, where are the fonts shown in the first window?  Google search
> does not yield a hint and the help does not either.
>
Not sure what you are asking, but the confusion relates to my previous 
question. What I have found is that Ubuntu (at least and other modern 
distros) use a system called 'fontconfig' and that it's a pretty complex 
system to locate and describe fonts for use by apps.

> I am obviously working on getting every font known to mankind
> available from OpenOffice.
>
I am not sure how OO handles fonts. I have had reports that fonts installed 
(copied or linked) into ~/.fonts will show-up in OO, so that's one thing. 
Where it keeps its fonts may be more of a mystery.

Do you have specific font names you are looking for? You can use the fc-list 
command to find them.

Anyway, 
hth
/d