I wouldn't know about fonts, but I always download a file and then install
manually.  I like to know where it's going and how to restart if it fails.
Plus, I don't really trust anything to correctly do things automatically.

--- Josef Lowder <joe@actionline.com> wrote:

> .
> 1) What is the best (simplest) Linux font viewer? 
> 
> I was about to download 'opcion' but it looks enormously 
> complicated with a zillion tiny files.  So I wondered if 
> there might be something simpler. 
> 
> 2) Speaking of downloads, is it better to download files 
> and then install them, or use the default 'Ark' installer? 
> 
> Also, when the 'Ark' installer fires up, there is a blank 
> input window labeled "Search:" which I am guessing must be 
> for entering a destination directory. Is that correct? 
> 
> In the list of a zillion file names for 'opcion' I also see 
> a whole bunch of subdirectories (which seems excessive to me). 
> Is it "normal" to have so many files in so many different 
> subdirectories?  Among them, just a few of the subdirectories 
> shown are: 
> 
> com/jgoodies/... (with a bunch more subdirs under this) 
> com/xlreader/shared ... (with yet more subdirs)
> FontViewer/components ... (with yet more subdirs) 
> 
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