Re: Gtk+ Font Dialog improvements

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

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