On Tue, 2022-05-24 at 22:14 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
A font viewer should only use the system font folders and any modern font viewer will use fontconfig, which won't be looking in random directories.
It's not really random directories, though. There's the everyone's fonts in a system location, there may be ghostscripts fonts in a well known location, and there may be a user's fonts in their homespace.