[Sugar-devel] 1-click way to add extra fonts?

[Christoph Derndorfer]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 05:24:00PM +0000, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> >is there any simple 1-click way to add extra .ttf fonts to Sugar?
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> >While the manual way (creating /usr/share/fonts/truetype, copying the .ttf
> >files) is easy enough for most people I'm looking at a scenario where a
> >teacher is trying to add fonts to 25 XOs. So it's quite obvious that the
> >manual way is a bit impractical...
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> Instead of /usr/share/fonts/truetype (which requires root access, I
> believe) you should be able to store fonts below ~/.fonts (i.e.
> /home/sugar/.fonts if username is "sugar").
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> And you really do not need to store in subdirectories.


According to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fonts#By_copying_.ttf_files storing
them in ~/.fonts does not work due to #6629 (
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6629) which is still open...


> Still not 1-click...


Nope:-(

Cheers,
Christoph


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