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Idea #10319: Install font with right-click

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #303: Font Repository with a User-Friendly GUI.
Written by Eldmannen the 26 Jun 08 at 08:17. Category: Others. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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I want to be able to right-click on a .ttf (TrueType) font file and select "Install" in the context-menu to install the font into the system.
Tags: font install

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Written by Eldmannen the 26 Jun 08 at 08:17.
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Arnaudus wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 08:40
I'm not sure the right clic thing is the best way to do, but Ubuntu and Gnome definitely need a proper font manager. The accumulation of different kinds of font (postscript, bitmap...) in different systems (OpenOffice will have different fonts than Latex...) looks really messy.

Eldmannen wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 08:52
Installing fonts is too hard.
I don't even know where the fonts are located.

Primož Papič wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 10:00
The font installation was one of reasons I went from GNOME to KDE.
+1

hells_dark wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 10:21
Come on..
Putting your fonts in the ~/.fonts folder is not so hard..

Even if it could be great..
Why not a install button in the window opened with a double click ?

Auzy wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 10:37
what.. putting fonts into a hidden folder is easy?

Eldmannen wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 13:02
hells_dark,
Sorry I was not even aware that directory existed.

Having an install button on the window opened with double-click would be alright too.

droetker wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 14:04
What's the problem with a nautilus script which copies the file into the ~/.fonts folder?
I am using KDE too, but THAT can't be a problem, nautilus has script plugin support AFAIK.

Hiéroglyphe wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 14:10
Gnome Font Viewer should have a big button "Install this font" that copy the font in the good folder.

jhoger wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 14:51
+1,Obvious

This would make an intuitive interface for installing TrueType fonts: very "discoverable." I don't see any downside here.

Aldo Nogueira wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 21:00
I agree with "install" button in Gnome Font Viewer

YokoZar (Ubuntu developer) wrote on the 1 Jul 08 at 12:05
Would be nice to have the option of installing it system-wide (if administrator) or just to ~/.fonts (if not)

frederyk wrote on the 1 Jul 08 at 23:13
I think a nautilus-plugin would be enough


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