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Font Preferences needs to give user power over system fonts path

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Font Preferences needs to give user power over system fonts path komputes 07 Aug 04:34
  Font Preferences needs to give user power over system fonts path Martin Nordholts 07 Aug 07:19
   Font Preferences needs to give user power over system fonts path Michael Schumacher 07 Aug 11:15
    Font Preferences needs to give user power over system fonts path Alexandre Prokoudine 07 Aug 16:37
     Font Preferences needs to give user power over system fonts path komputes 07 Aug 18:24
      Font Preferences needs to give user power over system fonts path Alexandre Prokoudine 07 Aug 18:47
   Font Preferences needs to give user power over system fonts path Sven Neumann 07 Aug 21:36
  Font Preferences needs to give user power over system fonts path Michael Schumacher 07 Aug 11:14
komputes
2008-08-07 04:34:39 UTC (over 16 years ago)

Font Preferences needs to give user power over system fonts path

Font preferences allows the user to add custom paths to font directories. The system fonts are included by default but are not viewable/removable by going to

File > Preferences > Folders > Fonts

Even though the fonts found in /usr/share/fonts are included in Gimp's font selections, they cannot be seen in the font preferences (list of paths).

I have suggested a feature be added giving user control over the system fonts.

If you are a GIMP developer, please let me know what you think of this by posting to bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546344

The proposed feature request will give control over system fonts from within GIMP, so that the user could chose to turn them off if preferred. In turn this will allow "power users" to have full control over the fonts displayed in GIMP.

-komputes

Martin Nordholts
2008-08-07 07:19:13 UTC (over 16 years ago)

Font Preferences needs to give user power over system fonts path

komputes wrote:

Font preferences allows the user to add custom paths to font directories. The system fonts are included by default but are not viewable/removable by going to

File > Preferences > Folders > Fonts

Even though the fonts found in /usr/share/fonts are included in Gimp's font selections, they cannot be seen in the font preferences (list of paths).

Hi

IMO letting the user have full control of what fonts that is available in GIMP completely aligns with the product vision [1].

I think the bug report is valid and should be reopened.

Best regards, Maritn Nordholts

[1] http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/GIMP_UI_Redesign#product_vision

Michael Schumacher
2008-08-07 11:14:16 UTC (over 16 years ago)

Font Preferences needs to give user power over system fonts path

Von: komputes

If you are a GIMP developer, please let me know what you think of this by posting to bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546344

No. Replies go here, this was the point of Sven's comment.

HTH, Michael

Michael Schumacher
2008-08-07 11:15:47 UTC (over 16 years ago)

Font Preferences needs to give user power over system fonts path

Von: Martin Nordholts

IMO letting the user have full control of what fonts that is available in GIMP completely aligns with the product vision [1].

I'd expect to be able to tag them.

Michael

Alexandre Prokoudine
2008-08-07 16:37:49 UTC (over 16 years ago)

Font Preferences needs to give user power over system fonts path

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Michael Schumacher wrote:

Von: Martin Nordholts

IMO letting the user have full control of what fonts that is available in GIMP completely aligns with the product vision [1].

I'd expect to be able to tag them.

Isn't it what is usually done by means of font managers like Fontmatrix?

Alexandre

komputes
2008-08-07 18:24:32 UTC (over 16 years ago)

Font Preferences needs to give user power over system fonts path

Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Michael Schumacher wrote:

Von: Martin Nordholts

IMO letting the user have full control of what fonts that is available in GIMP completely aligns with the product vision [1].

I'd expect to be able to tag them.

Isn't it what is usually done by means of font managers like Fontmatrix?

Martin, thank you for your support on this feature request.

Alexandre, Fontmatrix, allows you to tag your fonts but I don't think it has control over deactivating system fonts. I have tested (for the first time) Fontmatrix 0.4.2 from getdeb.net on Ubuntu 8.04.1 and it does bring back good memories of using extensis suitcase (a mac font manager any designer will know) except for the fact that Fontmatrix does not allow you to deactivate system fonts. Don't get me wrong, the option is there, but after deactivating a group of fonts, one by one, checkboxes are still there... and I still see them all in GIMP. Although this is not a workaround for me yet, I will looking into this project as it is relevant to managing fonts.

-komputes

Alexandre Prokoudine
2008-08-07 18:47:50 UTC (over 16 years ago)

Font Preferences needs to give user power over system fonts path

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:24 PM, komputes wrote:

Alexandre, Fontmatrix, allows you to tag your fonts but I don't think it has control over deactivating system fonts.

It actually does deactivate them. At least that's what I see in the SVN trunk version (v0.5 is coming).

Even if it didn't, that would still rather be a Fontmatrix issue, not a GIMP's one ;-)

Alexandre

Sven Neumann
2008-08-07 21:36:20 UTC (over 16 years ago)

Font Preferences needs to give user power over system fonts path

Hi,

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 07:19 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote:

I think the bug report is valid and should be reopened.

Not unless someone finds out how this can be done. I had a look at the code and I don't think we can persuade fontconfig to exclude the system fonts.

Sven