https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35538
--- Comment #102 from [email protected] --- The dropdown list is too long. If one has more than a few font families the drop down list of fonts becomes long and clunky. If one has a lot of font families, the list becomes near useless. I have hundreds of font families and many thousands of individual fonts. Scrolling down one long list that combines font family and individual weight is beyond maddening. There is a solution, to have one dropdown for font family, and a second dropdown for weights and italics. See image posted by GwenDragon https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=44709 for an example of a better interface for selecting fonts. Getting stuck at the top of the list Compounding the issue of a too long list of fonts is the fact that whatever font I select gets transported to the top of the list so that if I decide FontALight is too heavy, and I want FontAExtraLight, I have to scroll down the entire list again to get to the next door neighbor of my original selection. Many missing weights and italics But I may not actually be able to get the weight and style I want since once I scroll down to "FontA", too frequently that weight is entirely missing, as are most or all of the italics. In the vast majority of my fonts the italics are simply missing from the list. And in many, one or more weights in the non-italic faces are missing. Clicking on the slider yields too large jumps down the list. I'd advocate for the slider on a long dropbox list to drop or rise by only one "screen full" if one clicks on the scroll bar below or above the slider. Currently it jumps to some random point way up or down the list. That jump makes clicking in the scroll bar a waste of time, essentially wasting a good interface tool. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
