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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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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?
>
>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...

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").

And you really do not need to store in subdirectories.


Still not 1-click...


  - Jonas

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