Hello, Up too late, must retire soon, a quick question if you will?
I use Kubuntu (Dapper), but I reckon this will apply to a lot of distros: Where do all the installed system fonts live?
I know that is simplistic and it has to do with fontconfig and a tonne of config files and a million type1 fonts in a bajillion folders, but can anyone get me started on the big picture?
I'm asking because my little project, FontyPython, revolves around managing fonts etc. One of the most irksome things is to have fonts in a chooser (like under Inkscape) that I do not want there. For example, if I have *zero* fonts in my ~/fonts directory, and I run Inkscape, I have about 600 fonts listed in the chooser! That's just plain nuts! Man, that's cashew nuts, with salt!
So, I am pondering (vs sleeping, which I should be doing) about ways to lessen this clutter and write a 'cleanup' script that can remove them from the system -- not delete them, just uninstall them or whatever the term is.
I can't even find them by locate or find. There's one called "Christian Participants" which is the fugliest thing I have ever seen and I cannot even find the file on the drive, let alone uninstall it!
So, anyone with a clue? have mercy on me :) /d
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 00:46 +0200, Donn wrote:
Hello, Up too late, must retire soon, a quick question if you will?
I use Kubuntu (Dapper), but I reckon this will apply to a lot of distros: Where do all the installed system fonts live?
I know that is simplistic and it has to do with fontconfig and a tonne of config files and a million type1 fonts in a bajillion folders, but can anyone get me started on the big picture?
I'm asking because my little project, FontyPython, revolves around managing fonts etc. One of the most irksome things is to have fonts in a chooser (like under Inkscape) that I do not want there. For example, if I have *zero* fonts in my ~/fonts directory, and I run Inkscape, I have about 600 fonts listed in the chooser! That's just plain nuts! Man, that's cashew nuts, with salt!
So, I am pondering (vs sleeping, which I should be doing) about ways to lessen this clutter and write a 'cleanup' script that can remove them from the system -- not delete them, just uninstall them or whatever the term is.
I can't even find them by locate or find. There's one called "Christian Participants" which is the fugliest thing I have ever seen and I cannot even find the file on the drive, let alone uninstall it!
So, anyone with a clue? have mercy on me :) /d
Donn, jump over to openfontlibrary.org to discuss this all in more depth.. cheers
Jon
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