Easy Font install

[SuperninjaXII]

Instead of copying fonts to the /user/share/fonts directory why not add a install fonts option in the Nemo file manager

[rcalixte]

You have a few options here though unless you need fonts installed for more than one user, I would recommend installing them to ~/.local/share/fonts.

Your first option is to implement this via a Nemo Action. An option that copies the font file to the aforementioned directory and then reloads the font cache would be pretty straightforward to implement.

Your second option is to install one of the available font managers. There are a few options here:

• font-manager
• Fontmatrix

[SuperninjaXII]

Hi Rick am from matrix superninjaX2. I was like suggesting as a simple convience for every user

[sonicSMASH]

This already is a Nemo Action

[kneekoo]

Whatever the solution is, having a simple way to install fonts on your system is important to anyone who wants to use a text editor (office suite) or using graphics software to add text to images. And because most people don't just know where to copy fonts, the operating system could meet them half way, at least.

There are multiple solutions:

• give the file managers actions to install fonts (locally or system-wide)
• adopt a font manager
• adopt a font (pre)viewer app - font-viewer also has an install button, though it doesn't check if a font is already installed
• customize "Fonts" to allow opening the user font directory and inform that the system font directory can be used for multiple users
• make a font manager