Hi,
On 12 Sep 2006, at 21:58 , Donn wrote:
I have released a font manager for Gnu/Linux. Sorry Windows users - go and look for a free app called "The Font Thing" it rocks. I can adjust it to work on Mac OS-X, but will need a volunteer to help me.
I have looking for something like this on Linux for a long time. Thanks! Some remarks: - in connection to Inkscape: it would help not to clutter the font selection menu if fonts collections could appear in it. If you haven't seen the font selection panel of mac os X, this is what I am talking about. see: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/interface/dialogs/font/ macosx103-1-1.png This and a search facility are really great. If such features could be part of Fonty Python or integrated in Inkscape (or even in GTK itself) it would really be great.
- in connection to mac os X: there is already a font manager integrated into Mac OS X (Font Book) and its features are similar to Fonty Python except that it can manage more than just true type fonts. Therefore I do not think that there is much room for a "competitor" here, unless both apps play nice together (ie. Fonty Python knows how to read and write Font Book font collections). Nevertheless your experience in enabling or disabling fonts under an X11 environment would be well used in "integrating" Font Book in X11. Currently, when fonts are disabled in Font Book, they are still available in X11 applications. It would be great to have them disabled also under X11.
Thanks again.
PS: great name BTW.
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