[Sussex] What planet are they on ?

[Dave Pipe]

> On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:16:39 +0000johnsemailaccount at gmail.com  writ
> Subject: [Sussex] What planet are they on ?
> To: SLUG mailing list<sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>
>
> Wotcha List,
>
> Damn I must be going mad eh ? 2 posts to the list in less than a
> month.......
>
> So here I am, trying to fine tune a few things with this new, all singing,
> all dancing version of Ubuntu ie 11.10 (I forget what idiot name they've
> given it.....)
>
> All I'm trying to do, is to install the windows fonts (and yes, I do have a
> licence and install on a different partition). So, rather than bother you
> good people, I just google it.
>
> Which is fine as there seem to be some rather nice, helpful instructions,
> great! The advice followed and yes, it seems that I've managed to install
> the fonts, but when opening an application that might have some listing of
> fonts to choose from (like firefox), there's no sign of them.
>
> Ok, so I hit google again, as there seems to be no way of changing any of
> the system fonts etc and google gives me a different place to look, which I
> find and try to follow.
>
> The instructions say about installing a package called something like gnome
> tweeks, so that's ok, I can manage something as basic as that. Job done.
>
> Obviously not, as it doesn't matter whether I just log out and back in or
> do a full restart, there's no sign of how to open this facility (nothing in
> the menu etc), so Ok, next step is to
>
> look in the "Ubuntu software centre", and all I can find is "Gnome desktop
> environment with added components".
>
> It's all well and good being able to install all sorts of packages but
> absolutely no good if there's no obvious way of running said packages.
>
> It does seem a bit weird, as I've done this a number of times before, more
> often than not, just clicking a few facilities and bingo, fonts installed
> and available. Yet with this latest version of Ubuntu, they seem to have
> left out or removed some of the things like this, that we "non-techie"
> types rely on.
>
> I mean, what good is it them producing newer versions of things if they
> leave out some of those kind of facilities ? Are they still aiming the
> *buntu's at people in the hope that they'll change from another OS ? or are
> have they given up on increasing market share, and just aiming it at techie
> types who can do all of the more basic things blindfolded ?
>
> "They" seem to make these kind of changes, apparently making things easier,
> but seemingly only from their own point of view - which IMO is a complete
> waste of time, as non-techie types don't understand or know how to do stuff
> from their point of view do they ! Hell, there's not even an option to view
> or change fonts in either the "Accessories" or "System tools". How is the
> less technically adept person gonna work out how to do stuff.
>
> Even the bits of advice and guidance that google kicks up seems to be
> written from a semi-tech approach. That seems to leave stuff out
> as "they'll know how to do that".....
>
> Right, sorry if that sounds a bit like a rant, well it is, but it's not
> supposed to. Just me venting a bit of frustration about something that
> should be reasonably straight forward, that "they" have made hard work!
>
> Keep up your excellent posts, as they do make excellent reading, even if I
> don't follow exactly what it is that you may be trying to do. Like "British
> Rail", I'll get there, eventually.
>
> regards
>
> John D.
Have you tried opening a terminal & typing:
sudo fc-cache -fv

Dave P
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