FontManagement

Revision 1 as of 2006-06-07 23:01:25

Summary

Polishing existing font management infrastructure and adding extra components to make handling fonts very easy and user-friendly in GNOME

Picking up some ideas left over from ["UbuntuDownUnder/BOFs/FontHandling"].

improving the various font bits in nautilus
- exposing the font:/// folder more
- improving gnome-font-viewer
- creating a properties tab for fonts metadata
- allowing i18n modifiable pangrams
- visually distinguishing (manual grouping? tags? emblems?) system-wide fonts (/usr/share/fonts/) from personal ones (~/.fonts) as well as restricted/proprietary fonts from free/libre/open ones when browsing fonts:///
- adding contextual menu actions related to fonts
creating a smarter font menu: [http://unifont.org/fontdialog/ Font selection widget proposal]
providing a GUI to set more fontconfig parameters for a user's fonts.conf

Possible inspiration