gnome-font-viewer

[drx]

> Last night my girlfriend asked me to make a few quick signs for her
> using Comic Sans. As ubuntu doesnt have this font I thought Id copy it
> from her laptop. I thought you could just copy them to the fonts:///
> folder and a font importer window opens (this didnt happen) but a bit
> of searching revealed that I needed to use fc-cache  (or whatever it
> was). Anyway - I got the font working in staroffice just fine but in
> the fiddling process I right clicked and selected open in font viewer.
> Nothing happened. I then tried gnome-font-viewer from the command line
> on the ttf and it seg faulted. I just took a quick look at bugzilla
> but couldnt find anything, this a new bug? or me being a muppet and
> doing something wrong?

I succeeded with installing fonts by copying them to the folder

~/.fonts

After that they showed up fine in all programs i tried.

To drag files into the fonts:/// view didn't help as well, and 
doubleclicking on fonts to view them did not do anything in nautilus.

drx