Karmic Allows One Click Installation Of New Fonts

By , Published October 1, 2009
Installing fonts in Ubuntu Karmic has been made so super easy you might just die of "about-time" shock. It's all thanks to Gnome 2.28 that Karmic comes packed with.

Double-clicking on font gives you this: –

I’ve added some arrows to point out the super easy new install button, which you just click to install that font.

F i n a l l y !

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Dominick

    ;dies of ‘about time’ shock;

  • Mohan

    Awesome, and about time! :)

  • Fer

    Will it work for non True Type Fonts?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Yes indeedy! Though you’ll probably need to manually set .otf’s etc to open with the fontviewer as on my system they default to opening with OpenOffice.

  • Anonymous

    Hallelujah! This is long overdue.

  • rAX

    Hello, thanks for the info, but this has nothing to do with Karmic, I think it’s a new feature in Gnome 2.28 but I’m not sure though, :P

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Karmic uses gnome 2.28 hence it’s a new feature in karmic. :)

  • http://stevelove.org Steve Love

    So wouldn’t that be three clicks? ;)