"Priority: Medium. The project developers will definitely get to this feature, but perhaps not in the next major release or two."
Considering the sheer amount of fonts delivered with Ubuntu, a font management GUI is a plain necessity, thus the priority should be not "medium", but "urgent". This issue is one of the the major obstactles to consider Ubuntu a recommendable platform for Scribus/DTP. Quting a Scribus team member with whom I chatted about it yesterday: <mrdocs> well on a default install with Ubuntu there is no GUI fontmanager <mrdocs> none <mrdocs> so no way to install fonts as an end user <mrdocs> defoma the debian font manager was a good idea in Xfree 4.0 days but with fontconfig IMO obsolete <mrdocs> i want to visually manage my fonts like Adobe Type Manager <mrdocs> I have 2000+ typefaces :-) See this list http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=4423 to see other issues that make Scribus users' life on Ubuntu not very easy -- Gnome offers no way to manage fonts https://launchpad.net/bugs/66833 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
