From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 Description of problem: The font configuration program in GNOME is very nice, but it needs to have the ability to graphically install new fonts, and to configure which font sizes are to be anti-aliased. Most new users would find it difficult to copy their fonts with the terminal to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype and then run mkfontdir and so on just to install their fonts. I'm sure this would be easy to implement since all it would have to do would be to copy the fonts and run a few terminal commands when you hit a button. Another nice feature to add would be to let the user decide which point sizes to anti-alias, since some fonts look blurry at small point sizes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run the GNOME font config 2. Try to install new fonts. You can't 3. This needs to be implemented eventually! Additional info:
Reasonable future request; though note that *all* you should have to do to install fonts is create ~/.fonts and copy your fonts to there.
Current packages contain "fontilus" which provides fonts: to browse current fonts or install new ones. There is/will be a button in gnome-font-properties to open a nautilus window in the right place. I don't know if we have any plan for handling systemwide font installation through the GUI.
<jrb> owen: not system wide; fontilus just copies the file to ~/.fonts <owen> jrb: Idea - we have a fonts-system: URL which omits ~/.fonts and dropping into that invokes a user-helpered helper <jrb> owen: should be easy enough; not easily discoverable <owen> jrb: Hmm, I guess you'd want it to also user the user-helpered helper for delete as well <owen> jrb: Well, we could put a desktop file for it in the menu system...
There is a Problem on adding non English Fonts as well The /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs seem to rebuild the fonts.dir every time it start. This is good for automatically Adding fonts. So the easy way to add fonts is to copy your fonts to some of the fonts dir that listed by chkfontdir. But this is not going to be happen on double-byte fonts. Bug 85185
We have a button to go to fonts: now, although it is hidden in the details subdialog. Should this be closed, or do we still consider adding UI for systemwide font installation ?
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Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.