gfontview is an outline font viewer for Linux. See the screenshot.
The personal itch (The cathedral and the bazaar) it tries to solve is that I could not find any font displaying program to see my fonts and then be able to install them.
So, what am I doing? Well, I want to be able to view uninstalled fonts. So I started with the program, left alone all installation issues (handled best by other programs), and tried to optimize it as a font displayer. It should handle Type 1 and True Type fonts, give some useful information about them and print several types of samples.
The goal is to have an easy way of exploring your fonts. You point the program to a directory containing font files and it scans it and presents them in a list. At start-up, it will scan some predefined directories for fonts, and, if present, will list them in a combo box, which behaves similarly to the input line of web browsers, including a history of visited directories.
