Re: Gtk+ Font Dialog improvements

[Henrique Carvalho Alves <hcarvalhoalves gmail com>]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Henrique Carvalho Alves <hcarvalhoalves gmail com> 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

The mockup is functional and implemented in Python + Glade. It's available at my Launchpad:

https://code.launchpad.net/~hcarvalhoalves/+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.