Font selection -- a solution
- From: Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>
- To: dia-list gnome org
- Subject: Font selection -- a solution
- Date: 25 Jun 2002 11:00:26 -0500
I had a flash of inspiration this morning biking into work. I was thinking
about how most people only use a few fonts, most probably just the three
standard fonts (sans, serif, monospace). So how about this:
At the outset, there is a font menu with the entries
Sans
Serif
Monospace
Other fonts...
plus the regular style menu.
Selecting other fonts opens a GtkFontSelectionDialog. There, the user can
see the whole list, as well as samples of how they look. When a font is
selected there, it is added to the font menu. Extra fonts in the font menu
are stored persistently (with the possibility of LRU-ness). This way, we
have a simple font menu that gives the user exactly the fonts he/she needs,
and for finding other fonts, we have the full power of the standard font
dialog.
-Lars
--
Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor
"I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |----------------------------
will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and
--Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket?
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