1) Linux font viewer? -and- 2) downloads destination

[Josef Lowder]

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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)