Hello all on the lists, 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 am a designer and I missed the ability to view fonts, sort them into collections and install/remove those collections. It was an itch I simply had to scratch and I ended-up using wxPython to solve the problem.

With Fonty Python you can select ttf fonts and put them into "pogs" (from the word typography). You can place fonts into pogs from a folder or from another pog. You then install the pog you need. After that, you fire-up Inkscape and those fonts *should* appear in the font dialogue. You do your design, and when you are done and don't need them anymore, you simply remove the pog! It's there for next time. It really helps to keep fonts organized per project/client/job, whatever.

If you are interested in trying it out, you can get it from: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython

I am still "moving" into the Savannah website, I hope to have a short manual and so forth in the near future. The tarball (the download file) contains a README that you should consult.

Please let me know your experiences with it. I apologise in advance if it toasts your hard drive, looks at you funny and then steals your car :)

Donn.