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[Olivier Berten <839407@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have KFontView installed but it loads much slower on Gnome and it
doesn't show the font informations (description, copyright, version,
...). On the other hand, it allows you to see all characters which is
sometimes useful too. That's why I have both installed.

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Title:
  gnome-font-viewer missing in oneiric

Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  So is gnome-thumbnail-font...

  Here is a workaround.

  Download the 2.32 Natty version:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/i386/gnome-control-center/1:2.32.1-0ubuntu15

  Extract the content.

  Go to gnome-control-center_2.32.1-0ubuntu15_i386/usr/bin and copy
  `gnome-font-viewer` and `gnome-thumbnail-font` to your /usr/bin
  directory.

  To make the font viewer system wide, run in terminal:

      gksu gedit /usr/share/applications/gnome-font-viewer-mime.desktop

  
  Copy, paste and save this into the empty file:

      [Desktop Entry]
      Version=1.0
      Encoding=UTF-8
      Type=gnome-font-viewer
      Name=gnome-font-viewer
      Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-font-viewer
      NoDisplay=true
      MimeType=application/x-font-otf;application/x-font-pcf;application/x-font-ttf;application/x-font-type1;

  
  Run in terminal:

      gksu gedit /etc/gnome/defaults.list

  
  Copy, paste and add this to the bottom of the file:

      application/x-font-pcf=gnome-font-viewer-mime.desktop
      application/x-font-ttf=gnome-font-viewer-mime.desktop
      application/x-font-type1=gnome-font-viewer-mime.desktop
      application/x-font-otf=gnome-font-viewer-mime.desktop

  To enable fonts thumbnails, run in terminal:

      gksu gedit /usr/share/thumbnailers/gnome-font.thumbnailer

  
  Copy, paste and save this into the empty file:

      [Thumbnailer Entry]
      TryExec=/usr/bin/gnome-thumbnail-font
      Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-thumbnail-font -s %s %u %o
      MimeType=application/x-font-otf;application/x-font-pcf;application/x-font-ttf;application/x-font-type1;

  Quit all instances of Nautilus (nautilus -q)

  Now it should be working ;-)

  Sources:
  http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=22517
  http://returnfalse.net/log/gnome-3-and-nautilus-video-thumbnails-with-ffmpegthumbnailer/

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