http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/303/
Furthermore, the GUI could be very helpful. When a user browses a font, a sample image of it could be automatically loaded so that the user can quickly find fonts that are appealing to them. A rating system or popularity gauge could be used so that the best fonts can be highlighted.

A tool like this would create inscentive for font designers to make their designs free/public. Credits could be given to designers in the font descriptions.


[1528 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #303


]]> en-us Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:25:49 +0000 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:57:41 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/303/ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:48:21 +0000 Preferences>Appearance>Fonts, there is a teeny tiny button that says "Details..." this will bring up another screen, and if you click the button at the bottom that says: "Go to Fonts Folder" Nautilus will pop up and show you all your currently installed fonts with a graphical preview such as you described. However, not only is this a pain in the ass to dig through to get to, but there is no way to install fonts from this screen. It should be just as easy for someone to install a new font as it is for you to drag and drop a downloaded Metacity or GTK theme.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:48:52 +0000
A little manager app that lets you pick a selection or set of fonts to "check in" or "check out" of the fonts folder. ]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:34:10 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:24:33 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:17:11 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:04:22 +0000
It let's you browse folders for fonts and keep lists of them in easy-to-use collections for viewing and on-the-fly installation/uninstallation.

http://fontypython.webfactional.com/

http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/utils/fontypython
http://packages.debian.org/fontypython
http://code.google.com/p/fontypython/]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:23:28 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:22:59 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:34:54 +0000 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:30:44 +0000 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:23:17 +0000
Perhaps out of scope, but I have always found that I lose user-installed fonts when upgrading (re-installing) Ubuntu and other OSes. I would appreciate the ability to have a list of fonts I like on my system saved to the cloud somewhere so that I can simply "download preferred fonts" in future Ubuntu installs.

Alternatively this could be achieved by the Ubuntu installer detecting and preserving installed fonts on the system - and keeping the cloud out of it.]]> Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:36:44 +0000 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:23:29 +0000 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:29:38 +0000 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:34:51 +0000 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:19:09 +0000 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:27:58 +0000 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:23:26 +0000
I would LOVE a GUI fontmanager to make installation/uninstallation easyer.]]> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:53:34 +0000
An easy way to install fonts and a massive apt-like font repository is a step in the right direction. Makes websites like http://www.dafont.com/ defunct.]]> Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:12:16 +0000
Where would you put the GUI for this? The "Preferences" list is getting kind of crowded.]]> Wed, 07 May 2008 17:07:02 +0000 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:16:30 +0000