lubuntu font installer (just an idea)

[Stephen Smally]

Il 16/07/2012 18:00, Stephen Smally ha scritto:
> Il 16/07/2012 16:19, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset ha scritto:
>> 2012/7/16 PCMan <pcman.tw at gmail.com <mailto:pcman.tw at gmail.com>>
>>
>>     I really think that it's a good idea.
>>     KDE supports this IIRC.
>>     Installing a font in Linux should be easy and just involves copy &
>>     paste or drag & drop
>>     It's not difficult to implement at all.
>>     For example, a user bought some commercial true type fonts for use
>>     in Windows.
>>     The fonts sit happily in C:\windows\fonts.
>>     Someday he started using Lubuntu.
>>     Then he needs to generate deb packages for each of them and submit
>> bug
>>     reports in the tracker of lubuntu to have them packaged.
>>     Then, he needs to wait for the next iteration of Lubuntu release to
>>     get these packages.
>>     If the fonts are not free fonts, there is no way to have them
>> packaged
>>     by Lubuntu team.
>>     So, packaging everything apparently does not work in this case.
>>     Just having a tool to copy the *.ttf files to the font dir and calls
>>     fc-cache update is enough.
>>     The main UI can be simple, and the "sudo fc-cache" call can be
>>     replaced with a policykit action, I think.
>>     However we should only install the fonts to some restricted place
>> like
>>     /usr/share/fonts/<our_own_folder> and not mixed with others installed
>>     by the packaging system.
>>
>>     Just my two cents.
>>
>>     On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Jonathan Marsden
>>     <jmarsden at fastmail.fm <mailto:jmarsden at fastmail.fm>> wrote:
>>      > Karl,
>>      >
>>      > On 07/15/2012 03:36 PM, Karl Anliot wrote:
>>      >
>>      >> Lubuntu doesn't have an automatic way to install font files. I
>>      >> noticed a user asking how to do this in lubuntu, he must have
>> had a
>>      >> font he needed to use.
>>      >
>>      >> A new program could list fonts to remove, and install fonts from
>>      >> font files, and launch a font viewer if the user wants to look
>> at a
>>      >> font. Someone could code this?
>>      >
>>      > Perhaps, but is there a good reason to do so?  Fonts can and (IMO)
>>      > should be packaged, just like other installable software.  They
>>     can then
>>      > be installed using existing package management tools (dpkg,
>> apt-get,
>>      > synaptic, lsc, software center, ...), and updated automatically
>>     that way
>>      > as needed.
>>      >
>>      > Creating and maintaining a new "special" application just to
>> install
>>      > fonts does not seem to me to have significant benefits, when
>> packages
>>      > and all their associated software tools and infrastructure
>>     already exist.
>>      >
>>      > Worst case, if a user is willing to "go around" the package
>>     management
>>      > system to install an unpackaged font, they can use pcmanfm or any
>>     other
>>      > file management tool to create a directory under
>>      > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ , copy their *.ttf files in there, and
>>     then run
>>      >
>>      >   sudo fc-cache -f -v
>>      >
>>      > This is the exact same approach described for Ubuntu at
>>      >
>>      > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts
>>      >
>>      > As far as I can see, Lubuntu is no better and no worse than
>> Ubuntu in
>>      > this respect.  When a user asks how to install an unpackaged
>>     font, and
>>      > they are unwilling to package it, I suggest we can direct them to
>>     that
>>      > wiki page.
>>      >
>>      > Jonathan
>>      >
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>>
>> Some time ago I went through the problem of installing fonts myself,
>> since in my office I'm migrating (with quite succes I must say)
>> everybody to Lubuntu. The problem was that I knew where to place fonts
>> to install them, but for newbies or average users it was a pain.
>> If I understand right, some functionality could be implemented within
>> pcmanfm to right click font files and install them? This would be a
>> great behaviour!!
>>
>> -- jpxsat
>>
>>
>
> What about a tiny app that open a font and ask for installation (and
> perhaps show a preview)?
> Maybe i will mockup something...
>
>

Mockup!
http://imagebin.org/index.php?mode=image&id=221005