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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