[CC'ed Donn Ingle as I point to his reaction on Mark's blog[1]--Donn, see [2] for my original proposal; I think subscribing is required before mailing to ubuntu-devel-discuss]
Op vrijdag 25-05-2007 om 13:40 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Matt Zimmerman: > Sounds like you want a specialized tool like fonty-python, designed > for people who do this kind of work. No! If properly implemented, most people would (almost) never have to do anything that they don't do now. I have been thinking about this for more than 2 years, after seeing the way too long font list (even before I installed the hundreds of fonts that I have). I have used font managers like Fonty-Python and those included in Adobe products before, on Windows and Mac OS Classic and they are usable but not perfect. And the way Fonty-Python works is a hackish workaround, as the author says himself in the comments on Mark's blog[1], but it's the best that can be done using the current infrastructure. It actually has to install and uninstall fonts (by symlinking them in '~/.fonts'), which is not the same as hiding them from the default font dialogs (it breaks when you try to view a document without installing the fonts used in it first). > What I'm concerned with in this thread is the experience of an average > user, who cares very little about fonts, just wants their applications > to work, and be able to display readable text in their language. We > want to have the simplest, cleanest infrastructure to provide this. What I describe provides an infrastructure that can be used for making things better for both ordinary users (they would mostly use what I call the 'defaults' font group) *and* for graphics professionals (even a better solution than Apple, Adobe, etc. have now!). It's just like apt/dpkg with its system for software installation, dependencies, etc. sits under gnome-app-install, Synaptic, aptitude, ... The default "font manager" could be similarly easy as g-a-i, while an advanced GUI for power users could be provided as a package for download. [1] <http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/119#comment-97178> [2] <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2007-May/000997.html> -- Jan Claeys -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss