I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on a partition of my sisters computer, and now that her windows died she has been using Ubuntu full time for about a week.
She asked me how could she install some fonts, and i told her "I don't know, figure it out... maybe search for an option in the settings menu, or right-click the font icon and choose install"
**note: right clicking the icon actually works in kubuntu
Guess what? It didn't work...
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+faq/98
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts#head-51423ff7185d56b59d892cfc5af4fd0cffb7073d
According to the links above, the most easy and obvious way to install a font is:
1. Open home directory
2. Go to View --> Show hidden directories
3. Create a new folder called ".fonts"
4. Drag and drop font file into directory
5. Restart applications where you need said font
After reading that I wondered why I didn't think of that before... it was so obvious.
I think installing fonts should be done by:
a) Right click font file --> "Install font"
b) Double click font file (view in font viewer) --> Add a "Install Font" button to font viewer
c) System --> Preferences --> Fonts
d) All of the above
I think that the easiest way to install fonts is installing it with Synaptic or with Terminal:
If you use Synaptic, look for the package called msttcorefonts.
If you use terminal, you can install in this way:
* sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
That is all... You tried it?