RE: Font Installation (Was: Re: Standard fonts.)

["yiyus" <jg_yiyus jet es>]

BTW: I think the Glue author was working in something similar, called
GGlyph. I will mail him to suggest include some pretty fonts. If you want
some good free fonts there are some Independence rpms which can help. That
packages could be included in the core Gnome.

>> I can't bear to think of screenshots as ugly as some I've seen...most
users
>> aren't going to be savvy enough to install their own quality fonts.
>
>Isn't someone already working on a font previewer somewhere out there? How
hard
>would it be to make that previewer also install the fonts that it previews
in
>X or ghostscript? (assuming that it doesn't already do this) The end
product
>would be kind of a xfontsel/install/preview app, which would just make
sense.
>
>Zack
>
>PS. Did this remind anyone else of the Font/DA mover on really old Macs?
>
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- yiyus