[ubuntu-art] Font Manager - Gnome

Jerry Casiano jerrycasiano at gmail.com
Fri Sep 25 19:46:09 BST 2009


On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Smartboy <smartboyathome at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> One feature which I find all font managers outside of OSX's is the ability
> to view fonts from a folder besides the .fonts or /usr/share/fonts folder.
> Why would I need this? I keep most of my fonts outside of the default
> folders so they aren't loaded when an app starts, as I have a ton of them
> and it makes load times skyrocket. If you could implement that feature, that
> would make my life SO much easier than what I am having to do currently
> (split my fonts into 8 alternative .fonts folders and rename each one to go
> through the fonts).
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> Smartboy
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If you open the application preferences ( center icon in lower left corner )
you can easily select different folders to scan for fonts, the app should
then restart and you can now preview/use/activate/de-activate the fonts,
removing folders is just as easy.

Is that what you had in mind?
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