Re: [Gimp-developer] Designing a Better Font Selection Widget for use in Open Source Software

2005-09-30 Thread Roman Joost
Hi Edward, thanks for you proposal. On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:36:45PM -0400, Edward H. Trager wrote: To see the full proposal, please see: http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/unicode/fontdialog/ The rest of this email provides a synopsis of the proposal. Speaking as a user here, I'm

Re: [Gimp-developer] Designing a Better Font Selection Widget for use in Open Source Software

2005-09-30 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Roman Joost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I really like the fact, that the fonts are categorized. That is something which I really miss in the font selection dialogs currently. If a user has installed a motherload of fonts, he mostly has to scroll and scroll and scroll to pick a font. Using

Re: [Gimp-developer] Designing a Better Font Selection Widget for use in Open Source Software

2005-09-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Akkana Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sometimes I really miss having a font selector dialog which I could resize to show a long list, so that I could scan through more quickly without needing to scroll so many times. Why don't you just open the Fonts dialog then? Sven

Re: [Gimp-developer] Designing a Better Font Selection Widget for use in Open Source Software

2005-09-27 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Edward H. Trager [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... regarding a proposal for an improved font selection drop-down widget that would be ideal for use in professional-quality Open Source word processing, desktop publishing, and graphic design programs such as OpenOffice.org, Gimp, Inkscape,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Designing a Better Font Selection Widget for use in Open Source Software

2005-09-27 Thread michael chang
On 9/27/05, Edward H. Trager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... regarding a proposal for an improved font selection drop-down widget that would be ideal for use in professional-quality Open Source word processing, desktop publishing, and graphic design programs

Re: [Gimp-developer] Designing a Better Font Selection Widget for use in Open Source Software

2005-09-27 Thread Akkana Peck
Nice proposal. A lot of apps could benefit from a good shared font selector -- it's not just an issue of one app, as you point out. I love the idea of font groupings. I don't mind editing an XML file, but I'm sure it wouldn't take much to whip up an app to help people customize their downloaded

Re: [Gimp-developer] Designing a Better Font Selection Widget for use in Open Source Software

2005-09-27 Thread Alastair M. Robinson
Hi, Edward H. Trager wrote: I welcome the community's suggestions and criticisms -- One easily overlooked feature which I consider to be most important is keyboard support. In many Windows apps (and OpenOffice), I can type the first few characters into the font selector combo and that's