where's the wish list for F11?

Thomas M Steenholdt tmus at tmus.dk
Sat Nov 22 05:03:22 UTC 2008


Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 00:18 -0300, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> 
>> Why not simply provide the default fontconfig package, with the ability 
>> to load fonts from say "/usr/local/share/fonts" ?
>>
>> People with this kind of need could simple become root and copy their 
>> fonts into that directory and be done with it...
>>
>> Why not?
>>
> 
> Because it is even easier to just copy the font to ~/.fonts. No need to
> become root. If you want a graphical way to do this, install
> nautilus-actions, and look at http://www.grumz.net/?q=node/334
> 
> 
> Matthias
> 

I know there's been mention of graphical tools, but that's not what I'm 
suggesting here.

What I'm suggesting is a system-wide equivalent of ~/.fonts.

/Thomas




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