Re: Getting rid of old home-grown FontSelector

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 22:10 24.06.02 +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Mon, Jun 24, 2002, à 09:34:52PM +0200, Hans Breuer a écrit:
> > [...]
> Well, what I mean is, let's say an object defaults to Sans. I want it in
> Serif (generic Serif). Will GtkFontSelector allow me do do that, without me
> having to specifically fish for Sans (and ending up with DIA_FONT_ANY_FAMILY
> anyways) ?
Yepp. The 'special names' are displayed in the font selector as if they
were normal. There is no special indication about them being special 
though.

> > Which reminds me, we could use these bits while saving and
> > don't save the family name at all if set.
> >
> > On the other hand the _three_ font family names with a special 
> > meaning are inherited (and configurable by Pango). They are
> > 'Sans', 'Serif' and 'Monospace' and are already saved as such.
>
> Would that reset the family bit to DIA_FONT_SANS (and the two others) if I
> select Sans in the GtkFontSelector ?
It doesn't matter. The current implementation only respects the
DiaFontFamily if no name is given: than it defaults to one of 
the three magic names. If you give such a name at creation ->
same effect.

        Hans
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