Re: RFC font ui

From: Robert Staudinger <robert.staudinger_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun Jan 28 2007 - 10:31:55 CET

On 1/28/07, Tomas Frydrych <tf@o-hand.com> wrote:
>
> Martin,
>
> > The situation on unix has changed dramatically in the past 3 years. Unix
> > used to have just the few old fre urw's now we have tons. I agree with the
> > idea of preferentially limiting the fonts to current locale.
> >
> >
> > As a rule I like the idea of limiting preferences but some are desirable.
> > Which pane of the preferences would you put this in?
> >
>
> Just thinking that if the Font dialog still showed all of the fonts, and
> only the combo was filtered, we probably would not need an option for
> this at all.

Wouldn't that make users "exotic" languages 2nd class citizens?
I've been pondering the patch the font combo to put the n last
recently used fonts on top, like other word processord do. Maybe that
would go some way?

 - Rob
Received on Sun Jan 28 10:32:17 2007

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