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
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    1 day ago

    KCharSelect

    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 …

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      1 day ago

      The TDE version of kcharselect should do much the same stuff with fewer deps, if a suitable package exists for your distro.

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        19 hours ago

        Mmmh, nope, only the normal version available.

        The Flatpak version (or KCharSelect in general) unfortunately ignores the font file given on command line.