So, yeah, basically the title …

I am in search for a good and simple and modern font viewing application. But there seems to be nothing that matches my criteria.

  • The software needs to be independent from any desktop environment, because I don’;t use one and i am not willing to install what feels like hundreds of specific dependencies

  • The software also should not be a font manager, I can manage my fonts absolutely fine by my own.

  • The software also does not need any features to view “installed and uninstalled” fonts (a term I come across – whatever that means), just give it a file name as parameter and view that font in the GUI.

  • The software should not be dead (i.e. last upstream change over a decade ago, using a dead graphics toolkit, not working on Wayland, etc.).

But either I forgot how to search the web or there seems to be no such application. All I wound was either decades old, dead software, or overly complicated and complex font managers or modules for the two common desktop environments.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance :)

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mlOP
    1·
    7 hours ago

    So, what dependencies do the DE font viewers actually pull in?

    The ones specific to that DE, which I do not want.

    • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
      21·
      7 hours ago

      So, given you won’t give any more detail on your requirements, I take it you just don’t like 'em.

      If you just don’t like stuff for no objective reason then there’s no reason for anyone else to build something satisfying your caprices. No-one can really help you because you’re not letting anyone inside your head.

      I’m sure you can knock something together in your GUI toolkit of choice that satisfies your whims. Zenity makes it easy to write styled text in a dialog box; maybe start there.