Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2005-09-27 at 1336.45 -0400): > This message is an open letter to: [...] > ... regarding a proposal for an improved font selection drop-down > widget that would be ideal for use in professional-quality Open Source > word processing, desktop publishing, and graphic design programs > such as OpenOffice.org, Gimp, Inkscape, and similar > programs. [...] > The proposal at http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/unicode/fontdialog/ > addresses how these goals can be met. Implementation of the proposed > font selection widget at the GUI toolkit level (i.e., in GTK+ and in KDE) > along with an XML-based configuration scheme standardized across > toolkits and desktops would do much to help create a more intuitive and > more uniform user experience on Linux and related Open Source platforms. > > I welcome the community's suggestions and criticisms --
I doubt a menu is a good idea, both from coding and user point of view, as a huge menu is nasty for speed. Menu creation takes time or a lot of effort to make it really fast (the coding part) and so does navigating it, penalizes failure or experimentation and disallows keeping it open (the user part). A window more like the MacOSX one would be better, IMO. The preview as name, on the other hand, would be a nice addition to the dialog. It could even become a helper tool, like calculator ones. With a simple method to pass back the info (a la popen(), no need of overengineering things), as well as copy&paste and drag&drop, it would indeed help. GSR _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
