https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151122
--- Comment #28 from V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #27) > (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #26) > > Nor should we incur the performance overhead of dynamic font browsing, like > > available to a cell selection in Calc, across an entire ODF document (text, > > drawing, presentation). Dynamic rerendering of anything more than current > > selection, or current Paragraph would be a problem. > > Agreed. The ask in this bug is static, not dynamic. Of course, there's a > one-time cost of determining which language is covered by which fonts, and > that's something we would like delay until the first time the user needs to > choose a font in that language (although we could do it earlier); and > there's the need to update the categorization/filtering when new fonts or > versions of fonts are introduced. But other than that, static. > Again that information is already presented in the SCD! It is trivial to statically identify if a font has script/language coverage by its listed coverage of Unicode locale block. Those same Unicode block coverage details could allow query filtering of the fontlist. But filtering of the fonts exposed on SCDs fontlist combobox in response to a script or locale entry is not implemented. Presumably that same static filter/query could be implemented for the font list combobox in other elements of the UI. > > Oh and by definition this *is* an Enhancement request, asking for new > > development. > > No, that's not the definition of an enhancement... Of course it is. > Bugs often require new > development - sometimes even large amounts of it, when functionality which > is already supposedly offered to the user isn't actually, or properly, > available; or when functionality must necessarily be offered to the user is > missing. > > In this case - users need to be able to select a typeface which they can use > with their chosen language - chosen on the same dialog. And at the moment, > users don't have that possibility. > And that *is* a feature request! But whatever... > > I maintain my objection to doing more than the SCD. > > That's an easy position to take when 99% of Western language typefaces cover > the English alphabet. You Westerners already have typeface selection working > properly - we don't. Uh, sure. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
