Bug 255892 - Font viewer will not install fonts; font management missing from KDE
Summary: Font viewer will not install fonts; font management missing from KDE
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_fontinst (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Craig Drummond
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Reported: 2010-11-02 16:42 UTC by mathew
Modified: 2010-11-05 20:31 UTC (History)
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Description mathew 2010-11-02 16:42:07 UTC
Version:           1.1.94 (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

Downloaded a font, unpacked the zip file.

Opened the .otf file using Dolphin.

Font Viewer displayed the font -- however, the Install... button bottom right is grayed out, and there doesn't seem to be any way to enable it.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Download OTF font.
Open font from Dolphin in Font Viewer.

Actual Results:  
Install button is grayed out.

Expected Results:  
Install button enabled.
Comment 1 mathew 2010-11-02 18:05:34 UTC
Oh yeah, the second part of the subject line is that I expected to find font management in system settings, and it seems to have disappeared from there. I guess that's not really a bug, just a random annoying change. I eventually found the font manager by searching the menus.
Comment 2 Craig Drummond 2010-11-04 22:17:48 UTC
The "Instal..." button will only be enabled if the font is not already installed Are you *sure* the font is not installed? I've just tried with KDE4.4 and KDE4.5 - and for both, the "Install..." button was enabled.
Comment 3 mathew 2010-11-04 23:31:04 UTC
The font is Symbola, from http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/

It doesn't appear to be part of any package on my system and was new to me; I had specifically hunted it down because I was missing a lot of Unicode symbols. But I just deleted it and tried again, and the second time the Install button was enabled. So I've no idea what happened the first time.

Maybe my font config confused Font Viewer because I hadn't touched it since upgrading Kubuntu versions? I dunno. Oh well, sorry for the irreproducible report.
Comment 4 Craig Drummond 2010-11-05 20:31:35 UTC
Closing, as irreproducible.