Re: State of gvfs in Gnome 2.21

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> For preview, open the font selector, select font, type text...

The advantage of fonts:// is that is has previews, which is a very nice 
feature.

> It never occurred to me that anyone would want to uninstall fonts.

At the very least, uninstallation of the fonts the user installed is 
necessary.

> As for the accessible alternative to dnd install, does fonts:// have one ?
> Maybe there should be an "Install this font" in the right-click menu
> for font files.

That would be nice, but I don't think it applies to anything with GFS.

> Anyway, I don't want to sound negative; if somebody reimplements
> fonts:// for gvfs
> that would be great. I just don't think it has a high priority.

My fear is that it will then get all politicized. "Well, such and such a 
language doesn't use 'Aa', so let's develop a system so that..." and it 
will never get done. Not to sound negative.

--Pat