Re: [Usability]new fontilus feature ...

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:54, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> > Okay, so it seems like s/Use as/Set as/ is a good idea.  This gives 
> > these three alternatives:
> >   Set as application font
> >   Set as screen font

I'm not sure this really makes sense... I'm not sure how people would
interpret "screen" first of all, and secondly I'm not sure people would
get the distinction between "printing" font (as in the font that gets
used in their word processor / spreadsheet) and "screen" font (as in the
font that's used to draw everything else).

It might be clearer if we contrasted it with the "Document Font"
somehow. I'll think along these lines... maybe something will occur to
me.

> >   Set as system font

System font might work, but IMO only because peolpe would have
familiarity with the word from MacOS (and windows?). I'd love to have a
more descriptive alternative.

> Use 'Set as Application Font', unless you are going to change the
> occurance of that in the Font Preferences dialog.

We need to change the occurence in the font prefences dialog anyway, but
Glynn is right that the two phrasings should match one another. I
couldn't think of any decent labels....but the current one definitely
sucks. It confuses me and I worded it ;-)

-Seth