gnome-font-viewer

[Thomas Beckett]

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:01:22 +0100, drx <drx at a-blast.org> wrote:
> > 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
> 

Yea like I said - I got the fonts working fine - I assume by puting
them in the fonts:/// folder they are available system wide rather
than just for the one user (~/.fonts) . i probably didnt need to use
the command to refresh the fonts (probably an old tip on the net).

Anyway - looks like the gnome-font-viewer is broken in Hoary - maybe
its changed format like the menus for Gnome 2.9 (are you using Hoary?)
Ill post a bug report.

Tom

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