Comment 14 for bug 193897

AFAICT upstream is leaning towards having a separate utility to handle fonts.
There was a fonts vfs patch but it wasn't complete and has now been dropped.

Hopefully something like gnome-specimen can be extended to provide the needed fonctionalities.

There's some discussion at the end of http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407605

BTW, some work is also going on with the font selector itself:
http://aruiz.typepad.com/siliconisland/2008/08/font-selectio-1.html