From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 16:13:54 EDT
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> From: Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com>
> Date: Tue Aug 27, 2002 3:21:25 PM US/Eastern
> To: snickell@stanford.edu
> Cc: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: AbiWord Font Usability question
>
> Hi Seth,
>
> We're having a little discussion on the mailing list and I was
> wondering if you or other HIG people would like to comment on it and
> perhaps guide us to a good solution to it. Relevant links and threads
> include:
>
> http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/Aug/0505.html
> http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/Aug/0536.html
>
> Basically, we're wondering if our font combo box should be:
>
> 1) Just plain (font names only)
> 2) All font names should be displayed in their respective font face
> 3) Only the selected font should be displayed in its respective name
> 4) Marc's font preview window (see screenshot)
> 5) Combo of 3&4
> 6) Other...
>
> We've come up with good arguments for all of these suggestions and
> highly visable places where they are used and not used (such as
> WordPerfect, MSWord, Apple, ...) Any help, insight, direction, or
> otherwise would be very much appreciated by our users. I personally
> will accept make sure that the HIG team's suggestion gets implemented,
> within reason.
>
> Thanks,
> Dom
>
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