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I needed to install a font today, in the download it comes with 3 styles for normal, bold, and italic. So I highlight them, once unzipped, and then right click and go to install. I have 2 issues here:

1. I would like a checkbox to remember if I always want them installed for personal or system-wide use, just a generic box with "Always do this in the future".

2. I have to enter my administrator password once to get the process started, and then again for every single font that needs to be installed. Thus, for 3 fonts, this brought it up to 4 times in a row I had to type in my password. Not very convenient.

So, very minor thing, but very frustrating Please fix.

I agree, I tried the vanilla Arch KDE and when it came to installing the fonts it made me realize why KDEmod is better than vanilla KDE.
This has to be corrected.
And I wasn't installing just few fonts I was installing cca. 100 fonts.

Actually, I went on to install 5 more fonts. One of which had a font file for every size of it, ranging from 8 to 144. What a pain in the butt that was.

Although in all honesty, do font installs need validation at all? Seems like you can install new plasmoids and scripted backgrounds without any validation whatsoever, whereas a font is not a script at all, yet it requires a password. Seems silly to need a password at all.

If you install the font system wide, of course it needs validation
Installing as user do not ask anything.
One think that got "worse" with font installs on kde 4 is overwrite existing fonts. On 3.5 when you installed, for example, the last version of dejavu fonts with a previous version already installed, kde just asked if you wished to overwrite the existing files, but now on kde4 it refuses the install and you need to uninstall the old version first.

Yes, but aren't plasmoids installed system wide as well?

envalin wrote:Yes, but aren't plasmoids installed system wide as well?

No. They go into ~/.kde/share/apps/plasma



Back to the original question - from a technical perspective if the font installer is updated to use policykit, the multiple password issue should go away.