https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98817
Bug ID: 98817
Summary: Better font selection
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.0.5.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: framework
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Copying what Microsoft does is just the Chinese way of innovation, but I think
we can do better:
For the font selection dialog here is what I missed all the time (wasted lots
of time scrolling a huge font list looking for some specific look):
1) When listing available fonts, the fonts already used in the document should
be on the top of the list, because it's very likely they will be re-used, and
it will avoid random errors by selecting a similar, but not the same font.
2) Fonts selected most recently should be on the top of the list (for the same
reasons stated in 1)). Maybe 1) OR 2) is sufficient, but 1) neither includes
2), as 2) does not include 1).
3) There should be a way to sort fonts by similarity instead of names (that
aren't really helpful to most users). If you don't know what I'm talking about,
maybe start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PANOSE.
4) Once the framework for 3) is set up, the user should be allowed to filter
the list by attributes.
5) For systems where there exist "font aliases" (like "Sans" in Linux), the
real name of each font should be displayed and alias names avoided (hidden).
More frequently than not, those alias definitions change after operating system
upgrades (talking Linux now), and what the user does not want is that a
different font is used in the document. (I'm not 100% sure this happens in
LibreOffice, but it happened in Inkscape).
6) I'm not sure about this one: If you have 3) implemented, the list of fonts
could start with the font currently selected, the sort according to similarity
with the font most different at the end of the list. Rationale: Sometimes the
user want a similar font, while sometime he/she wants a completely different
font.
7) Sorting by coding systems (Unicode blocks) may seem useful also: Europeans
may typically use one coding system, people from Asia another, in between
Greeks and Russians (apologies to all the others I missed). Unless you write
dictionaries or multi-language documents, you would hardly change the coding
system. OK Symbol and ornament fonts play a special role here.
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