On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Henrique Carvalho Alves < [email protected]> 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-th > ofing-i-dislike-on-gtk-its-the-current-font<http://hcalves.tumblr.com/post/144502395/one-thing-i-dislike-on-gtk-its-the-current-font> > > The mockup is functional and implemented in Python + Glade. It's available > at my Launchpad: > > https://code.launchpad.net/~hcarvalhoalves/+junk/gtkfontdialog<https://code.launchpad.net/%7Ehcarvalhoalves/+junk/gtkfontdialog> > > > I would appreciate feedback from user and developer viewpoints, and further > discussion for > improving the dialog. > Just to ping the thread - I committed some changes today, now dialog behavior and features are matching my original intentions regarding the UI and features, with one issue left: the use of an appropriate, internationalized text for preview. The issue is better discussed on the blog post. I wanted feedback from someone more experienced in the Gtk+ stack and C, willing to implement this mockup, maybe a branch or patch against GtkFontSelection(Dialog), and leveraging pango_language_get_sample_string() for providing a better preview text.
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