RE: GtkFontSelection

["Damon Chaplin" <DAChaplin email msn com>]

Hi,

I've put a new version of the GtkFontSelection at:

	http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~damon/fontsel/index.html

It's got a little test program and so can be compiled and
tested easily by anyone with GTK. Comments/bug reports welcome.


I've added a filter page & button as requested. (& functions
for getting/setting the preview text).


>  - The CLists work well for the Font and style. But they
>    are a real nuisance for size. A size should be selectable
>    in a single click without having to scroll around a little
>    list, and then click on a size.

I'm quite happy with the clist. I've made it a bit bigger so it
may be slightly easier. With a long list of possible font sizes
I think it's always going to be difficult to select a size in a
single click. And I prefer clists to popup thingies. What do
other people think?


>    The interface should avoid scaling bitmap fonts unless
>    the user selects a "scale bitmap fonts" checkbox. Scaled
>    bitmap fonts are pretty much never desirable.

Yes, I agree. I'll have a go at this later (though it wasn't my
original intention to write the perfect font selector! I just
wanted something a bit better than the Gnome/GIMP one for now.)


> Bugs?:
> 
>  - The behavior of the preview space where it always grows
>    as you pick larger fonts, and never shrinks is a bit
>    odd. Perhaps the dialog should have an auto_shrink policy.

It did auto-shrink originally, but then if I resized the dialog
and selected a font it would auto-shrink back to it's original size.
Pretty annoying. Maybe it could be solved somehow.


Damon