On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 17:40, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 23:36, Buchan Milne wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 22:42, Buchan Milne wrote: > > > > > > > > As I said, I have not tested this, but what happens if you change the > > > > default application fonts (which I assume gnome-font-properties uses in > > > > it's dialog) to be something unreadable (symbols, or too small)? Can an > > > > average user read enough of the dialog to change it back? > > > > > > The font selection dialog is OK / Cancel. Once you OK out of the box, > > > the font you chose is instantly applied. If you Cancel out of the box, > > > no change is made. This seems perfectly sensible to me. > > > > > > > OK, it is as bad as I thought. Try this: > > Get to gnome-font-properties somehow, change the first font (I can't read > > mine now, but it was probably "Application Font", if you change it to > > (say) OpenSymbol, hit OK, now the whole dialog is unreadable. At this > > point I would expect to be able to hit ESC or close the dialog to lose my > > changes (which I can do at least in KDE, probably Windows too), but no, I > > have had my fonts nuked. Try going back to change the font, but now, since > > the font names use the "Application Font", I can't read them now. > > > > It is not too difficult to put back, but this kind of thing can create > > unnecessary work for the help desk. > > So you want to add an entirely unnecessary extra back-out stage purely > to save the probably suicidally stupid luser who would select > OpenSymbol, see in the preview box that it was ALL FRICKIN SYMBOLS, and > then hit OK? > > I'm not biting.
Adam, I'm with you If the user picks a red background with red text .... OK... (I love to watch the squirming...) James
