Re: GtkFontSelection v0.6

[Owen Taylor <otaylor gtk org>]

Bruce Stephens <bruce@cenderis.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Owen Taylor <otaylor@gtk.org> writes:
> 
> >  - The registry and encoding filters should be combined. Logically,
> >    one doesn't think of iso8859 and 1, one thinks of iso8859-1.
> >    (And there is very little use in just viewing fonts in a paricular
> >    registry, and none in just viewing the fonts in encoding '1')
> 
> Well, I agree and disagree.  I certainly think of iso8859-1, so
> separating registry and encoding is silly (I'm not sure about whether
> it's silly in general; I just don't know).  
> 
> But I *do* think it's handy to be able to filter specifically for
> fonts in iso8859-1: I do this all the time in xfontsel.  Maybe I'm
> just weird, though.

Exactly. I'm not saying the filter should be removed. I'm just
saying that it should be combined into a single filter that
lists the various combinations separately.

Regards,
                                        Owen