https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91130
--- Comment #50 from Arlene <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Ole Tange from comment #49) > (In reply to Arlene from comment #48) > > (In reply to Ole Tange from comment #46) > : > > > Other times I am looking for a special look of the font, but have no idea > > > what it might be called. For this I need a way to see as many font samples > > > on the screen as possible. > > It is really great that now LO has this preview feature. Do you have any > > ideas in improving it? > > A way to see more fonts. Right now I can see ~20 fonts. So to scroll through > 250 I will have to scroll 13 pages. > > That feels sub-optimal since there is space for 5 times that many on my > screen. > > One solution would be to have multiple columns. My screen would fit 5 > columns showing ~100 fonts. Meaning that I would only scroll 2.5 pages given > my ~250 fonts. I understand you as a user, that uses 10 fonts daily. You would need to see/select fonts quickly. But, multiple columns interrupt the vertical momentum of moving down the list. I would suggest keeping users in a single column with a separate row of fields. > Maybe this should not be the dropdown, but opening a window in itself, where > you choose your favorite fonts from all fonts (including the ones that > supports Thai - see below), and the dropdown only shows your favorite fonts? Great idea that to add a field of "Favourite Fonts", so users can add their most often used fonts in it, and no need to do searching work in every time they want to change a font. > In my day-to-day work use I use maybe 10 fonts. So it would be nice if these > somehow were easily selected. > > > > If I write in Thai, it would be important to me that I could choose to > > > only > > > show fonts that had Thai letters. I imagine this is a problem for > > > languages, > > > too. It would be OK, if this filtering is a bit harder to do (E.g. behind > > > an > > > "Advanced" button). > > I found several comments in here and other similar bugs that talk about this > > feature. A filter or sorting feature can let LO be customized in some > > certain way for users. That would be great. Maybe we could welcome more > > users to comment here about their ideas for the filter/Sort feature of the > > font selector. > > I think it ought to be reasonably easy to either select the language or type > 'th' for Thai, 'da' for Danish and 'en' for English (possibly just use ISO > 639-1). Given the language it should be possible to determine which UTF-8 > characters that language requires, and if these are present in the font, > then include the font in the filter. E.g. for Danish it would be a-z+æøå. I agree this search way could be much easier for users to search for fonts. More feedback is needed from development perspective, I think. Welcome any ideas from the coding view to see if this substring search would be practical. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
