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 _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
