Comment 6 for bug 119174

I was just thinking about this feature and I would like to extend the brainstorming a little bit further.
It would be useful to have some sort of Font Library (a custom user-defined folder with lots of fonts or folder containing fonts) and list all available fonts in it. Select some, preview them, and symlink the ones you want to install into the ~/.fonts directory.

For the previewing problem, can't we take borrowed some code from gnome-font-viewer or fontypython?

PD: just for you to know, at work we use bitstream's font navigator under windows and agter playing with lots of utilities it was the one i feel more comfortable with.