It would appear that on Apr 4, Dexter Ang did say:
> On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 22:30, Martin Alderson wrote:
> > Fedora is missing a font install tool, IMO. While copying to fonts in
> > home is ok, I feel that a simple point and click wizard style applet
> > could really help new users with font install problems and make
> > themselves feel more at home in Linux (most users I have seen don't
> > like the fact that their websites they regularly visit are suddenly all
> > different).
>
> Are you using Gnome/Nautilus? If so, open up in Nautilus "fonts:///".
> This should show what you have in your ~/.fonts directory, as well as
> what is shared on the system (will be read-only). Drag and drop fonts
> here. Of note, it seems you have to refresh to see the font actually be
> there. But it does work... for me anyway. YMMV.
>
> A shame that fonts:/// is hidden though. It's actually in Menu -->
> Preferences --> Font. Then "Details..." button. Then "Go to font folder"
> button. It's the same as just typing "font:" in Nautilus location bar.
>
> Of course, you could probably, as root, include the fonts in /etc/skel.
> Just make a .fonts directory there, and include what you want. Then when
> you create an account, it should, technically copy it to the new
> account. I could be wrong on this one.
Hello, I'm very new to fedora, (just downloaded the 3 iso's today in fact)
So please pardon my ignorance. But I have a couple of stupid questions...
1) About copying to ~/.fonts: What exactly do you copy to the dir? The
font files themselves? Will symbolic links to said files work? Or what?
1b) Can I just copy trutype font files from my windows partition to ~/.fonts
to enable them for all my apps?
2) Isn't there a global place where root can put these to make them
accessible to all user accounts?
Maybe these questions will be answered for me during the installation
process (in which case I apologize for wasting the lists time) But at
the moment, I just don't know much about fedora yet.
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