How to get a list of installed True Type Fonts on Linux using C or C++?

Question

How can my app get a list of the True Type Fonts that are available on Linux.

Is there a standard directory where they are stored across different distributions? Or

Answer 1

I just did it using something called Pango which is used by GTK+. I found it by looking at the code for the linux 'Character Map' program (gucharmap). Here's the basic idea:

  PangoFontFamily **families;

  ...

  pango_context_list_families (
          gtk_widget_get_pango_context (GTK_WIDGET (notebook)),
          &families, &fontCount);

  printf("%d fonts found\n", fontCount);
  for(i=0; i