Re: [Usability] Fwd: Gtk+ Font Dialog improvements

[Tim Evans <t evans aranz com>]

Philip Ganchev wrote:
> Hi Henrique
>
> Your mockup looks nice. I do not understand exactly the problems you
> wanted to solve, but I have a couple of suggestions and questions.
>
> 1. The font family names in column "Family" should be displayed in the
> font family they represent. This avoids having to click on the family
> name to see what the font looks like; the user can just see it from
> the list. The same goes for Typeface and the "All fonts" combo box.

I threw together an example of what this might look like.  Inkscape and 
OpenOffice both use this type of list already, and I think it works 
well.  It's not noticeably slow or anything on win32, how does it fare 
on Linux?

--
Tim Evans
Applied Research Associates NZ
http://www.aranz.com/

from __future__ import division

import gtk, pango, gobject
import cgi


def families_list(parent):
    store = gtk.ListStore(pango.FontFamily, str)
    families = [(f.get_name(), f) for f in parent.get_pango_context().list_families()]
    families.sort()
    for name, family in families:
        store.append((family, ''))
    return store

def resize_families_list(store, size):
    size_str = str(size * 1024)
    for row in store:
        family = row[0]
        name = cgi.escape(family.get_name())
        markup = '<span font_family="%s" size="%s">%s</span>\n<span foreground="#666" size="small">(%s)</span>' % (name, size_str, name, name)
        row[1] = markup

def families_list_view(parent):
    store = families_list(parent)
    resize_families_list(store, 16)
    view = gtk.TreeView(store)
    view.insert_column_with_attributes(0, '', gtk.CellRendererText(), markup=1)
    view.set_rules_hint(True)
    view.set_headers_visible(False)
    scrolled = gtk.ScrolledWindow()
    scrolled.set_policy('automatic', 'always')
    scrolled.add(view)
    return scrolled

w = gtk.Window()
w.set_default_size(300, 485)
w.connect('destroy', gtk.main_quit)
w.add(families_list_view(w))
w.show_all()
gtk.main()