Managing fonts is not great on Linux in general. I'll make sure I give this a go.
A good font can make a big difference if you are in the terminal or editor all day. It's a pain to get unity between them though.
A good font can make a big difference if you are in the terminal or editor all day. It's a pain to get unity between them though.
The real mess, sadly, is configuring all your apps and such to use different fonts. There are an unbelievable amount of obscure configs, tweak tools, etc. if you want to change system fonts.
And the font-selector dropdowns become unusable.
So I started manually moving stuff from /usr/share/fonts/ and ./.local/share/fonts/ into per-project archive folders. A lot of work, that a font-manager could easily do much better. Worse: manually moving stuff from /usr/share/fonts/ can and will bring them back "unexpected" on updates or reinstallation - though there are probably hardly ever updates for font packages.
I would love a tool like fnt to manage this for me, but it seems fnt is more for installing and less for "dis- and enabling" them per theme/project etc.
Isn't this an old Windows bug, where GIMP would recreate the font cache on every start? I don't think I've ever seen any noticeable delay on Linux. (I have hundreds to thousands of fonts installed.)
It boots fast, but many menu's and buttons will stall for seconds or longer while fonts are being loaded. There may be an issue for this in some bugtracker, I have not checked this yet.