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.
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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
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The software also should not be a font manager, I can manage my fonts absolutely fine by my own.
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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.
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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 :)
What features do you need? Just render a string with a given font and that’s it? Or something more advanced?
Ideally something that allows me to see the characters in a table, sorted by character blocks, like in the LibreOffice “Insert Special Characters” dialog, so that I’m not limited to some predefined text but being able to see all characters.
KCharSelect maybe?
It just installs kcharselect … and figuratively half of KDE :)
There seems to be a Flatpak available I’ll check out later when I have time to install hundreds of megabyte of depending other KDE-specific Flatpaks …
Sounds like you already know the real solution: use KDE
The TDE version of kcharselect should do much the same stuff with fewer deps, if a suitable package exists for your distro.
Mmmh, nope, only the normal version available.
The Flatpak version (or KCharSelect in general) unfortunately ignores the font file given on command line.