Ubuntu
shared-mime-info package

Mac OS X style .dfont files are not associated with gnome-font-viewer

Bug #49005 reported by Pascal de Bruijn
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
shared-mime-info (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Mac OS X style .dfont files (which are a variation on the normale TrueType ttf files) are not associated with gnome-font-viewer.

gnome-font-viewer is capable of opening the .dfonts files and displaying them properly.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. Do you have an example of such .dfont to attach to the bug or an URL to point to download one?

Changed in control-center:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Untriaged → Wishlist
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Pascal de Bruijn (pmjdebruijn) wrote :

Well not really... Sorry... I copied them from an Mac OS X installation...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301332

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Marking as confirmed wishlist, it requires to:
- know what caracterize a .dfont (some example could be useful for that)
- create a mimetype for them (require shared-mime-info modification or to ship a .xml for it)
- add that mimetype to gnome-font-viewer .desktop

If anybody wants to pick the task and send a patch, feel free. The desktop team gets load of bugs at the moment and has lot to do so I doubt we will work on that any time soon

Changed in control-center:
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
affects: gnome-control-center → ubuntu-translations
no longer affects: ubuntu-translations
affects: control-center (Ubuntu) → shared-mime-info (Ubuntu)
Changed in shared-mime-info (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → nobody
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