On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Allin Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Henrique Carvalho Alves wrote: > > > There was discussion on this some time ago, and the discussion > > got lost. I'm trying to raise interest on this issue again. > > > > I did a mockup for a new gtk+ font chooser, as I find the > > current one lacking from usability aspects, and wanted to gather > > some feedback. If there's any interest, please read the > > rationale at my blog: > > > > > http://hcalves.tumblr.com/post/144502395/one-thing-i-dislike-on-gtk-its-the-current-font > > I agree this is a substantial improvement on the standard dialog. > > I have one additional beef with the existing selector, admittedly > more of a app-developer thing than a UI matter: the lack of any > means of asking for a subset of fonts to be displayed, e.g. > monospaced, or Roman text. > > Allin Cottrell > There could be an option to call the dialog passing what filter to use by default. There's already some filters (common fonts, fixed-width, variable-width), if we can gather more data from Pango to categorize fonts, more can be added. But then, I don't have this argument passing on the mockup, it's likely a Gtk+ implementation detail.
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