Any plans for a font install tool?

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Apr 4, Dexter Ang did say:

> On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 01:00, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> [snip]
> >  
> > 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?
> 
> Yup. You can simply copy the truetype fonts (.ttf) over to your ~/.fonts
> directory. I've never tried using symbolic links so I can't really say
> if it'll work. But you could always try. This should work for most Gnome
> applications. I think it doesn't work for OpenOffice.org though. Or does
> it? Anyone else with answers?

Well I'm sure "HOPING" it does... <grin> as that is one of the places I want
to use them.
 
> > 
> >  2) Isn't there a global place where root can put these to make them
> >     accessible to all user accounts? 
> 
> I believe this has been answered by Aaron Matteson. So I'll skip it. =)
> 

Yup he sure did (BTW: Thank you! (BOTH of you))

> > 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. 
> 
> Actually nope, these aren't "taught" during the installation. Definitely
> very unintuitive for those not yet used to it.

No not "taught" but somewhere in the text viewable during a graphic
install something mentioned some of it... (could it have been the
release notes?) 

I may be very new to fedora, And didn't spend much time with my RH9
either. But I'm not a complete stranger to linux. And I'm real glad to
find this very helpful list. I just hope that sometime I get
knowledgeable enough to help some one else here so I can give a little
back. I mean stranger things have happened, so maybe someday...

> Hope this helps.
> 
> dex

Actually it does. And the presence of such helpful people helps even
more!

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