On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 11:26 +0200, Maurizio Colucci wrote: > Maybe you could add another entry "fonts" in the "places" menu. That seems like the wrong approach-- the other Places are for generalized files, as opposed to fonts://, which is very specialized. I think a better approach would be to look at under what circumstances the user is going to be thinking about fonts. The most obvious case is when the user has a TTF file in front of them. If it's in Nautilus, perhaps we could have a simple extension like what file-roller provides for archives, to add "Install Font" to the File and Context menus for TTF (and other compatible font) files. And since the right click menu isn't the most discoverable, a button in gnome-font-viewer (and a .desktop file that sets up the default association!) to install the currently viewed font. This would also work, e.g. if the user opened an uncompressed font directly from their web browser. We could also move the Go To Font Folder button out of details and into the main font configuration dialog to make it more discoverable. (All the other detail options are very technical. I've never accessed them more than a few times, despite being something of a fontophile) Another, very bluesky thing to think about in the future (For when pango/fontconfig/freetype is able to autorefresh its internal font list without a program restart), would be an "Install Font..." button and/or a drag/drop target in the font selector dialog.
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