I've got a question about fonts. I'd like to get Inkscape to recognise a folder of fonts that I have and I realise that I could just load them in with my system fonts but I have around 6000 fonts (crazy, I know

I did find a folder in /usr/share/inkscape (I'm using linux) called fonts with a readme file inside which says to '.....please place the appropriate files into this folder'. Does that mean font files? Anyway, I tried it but it didn't recognise the fonts. By the way, I'm using Inkscape 0.46. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks.