Re: Getting rid of old home-grown FontSelector

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Hans Breuer wrote:
> After fidling half the last night in widgets.c to make our home-grown
> FontSelector work with the recent DiaFont changes I've given up.

I am thinking now that making style 0 be normal obliquity/normal weight was
a really bad decision.  It's better to have a linear scale for them all.
(Argh!  Another change in font.h!).  The hack in
dia_font_selector_set_styles is an easy way to sort and remove duplicates
for styles.  A few fixes, and it seems quite workable.  I'll commit after
I'm done compiling (and making dinner, I'm afraid:)

> Is there any reason we shouldn't use the standard GtkFontSelector and 
> integrate it into Dia like the GtkColorSelector ?

The main reason I see is that we can avoid a complex window popping up
every time we want to change font.

> If the answer is no, I'm ready to apply the new version which works,
> but needs some more graphical sugar (currently it only has a button 
> with the font description, but it could even draw this in the 
> respective font :-)

Drawing it with the respective font is a bad idea -- some fonts
(e.g. dingbats) aren't readable as font names.

-Lars

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