FontManagement
Launchpad Entry: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/font-management
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Summary
Polishing existing font management infrastructure and adding extra components to make handling fonts very easy and user-friendly in GNOME
Picking up some ideas left over from ["UbuntuDownUnder/BOFs/FontHandling"].
Rationale
Use cases
Scope
Design
- improving the various font bits in nautilus
- exposing the font:/// folder more
- improving gnome-font-viewer
- creating a properties tab for fonts metadata
- allowing i18n modifiable pangrams
- visually distinguishing (manual grouping? tags? emblems?) system-wide fonts (/usr/share/fonts/) from personal ones (~/.fonts) as well as restricted/proprietary fonts from free/libre/open ones when browsing fonts:///
- adding contextual menu actions related to fonts
creating a smarter font menu: [http://unifont.org/fontdialog/ Font selection widget proposal]
- providing a GUI to set more fontconfig parameters for a user's fonts.conf
Implementation
Possible inspiration
[http://font-manager.blaubeermuffin.de/ font-manager]
[http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=39052 KDE's font app]
Some time ago, before dapper change from 6.04 to 6.06 I made some changes to gnome-font-viewer. It works, but I don't know to integrate it in the source package control-center. I redesigned the ui and used libglade. It is very similar to the old viewer, but it allows to install fonts (it is the same as dnd in fonts:///) I had forgotten it, when I read this spec. I think it could be usefull.
[http://perso.wanadoo.es/jag0069/gnome-font-viewer.glade glade]
[http://perso.wanadoo.es/jag0069/screenshot1.png screenshot]
[http://perso.wanadoo.es/jag0069/screenshot2.png screenshot]
Code
Data preservation and migration
Outstanding issues