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These types of apps became fairly irrelevant with the advent of Web Fonts and sites that already do all of this.
There's Fontbase, Gnome's Font Manager, KDE's Font Viewer and FontForge that are still maintained.
The fact that you're asking for whatever tool to not use something like QT or GTK is asking for the moon here. These types of applications you describe are generally packaged with a DE for this very use. I don't think there's a real use-case for someone to develop this independent of any DE, honestly. That's what they're most useful for.
That’s my point. All of those stupid modern things do not solve my issue of just double-clicking a local ttf file in my file manager to see some text rendered in that font. That is literally all I want to do.
I don’t really care what graphics toolkit is used. I just don’t want something that is heavily interconnected with any type of desktop environment due to not wanting to install a metric shit-ton of dependencies 😉
As far as I know, GNOME and KDE have had font viewers since time immemorial.
If the requirement is "few dependencies that I don't already have" then we need to know something about what dependencies you already have and what constitutes too many. As far as I can see, gnome-font-viewer's one GNOME-specific dependency is
libadwaita.I was talking specifically about web fonts and web font websites which help me not the slightest with my use case.
Oh, ok.
So, what dependencies do the DE font viewers actually pull in? How much space does that take up? What are the limits?
Lol no, i have my browsers fonts limited on purpose, to avoid visual overload.
You are the minutiae of users.
And?
And your user pattern doesn't make my point any less correct or relevant. In fact... Not sure why you even commented in the fashion you chose to.