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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [Gimp-developer] Designing a Better Font Selection Widget for use
From:       Sven Neumann <sven () gimp ! org>
Date:       2005-09-27 21:04:58
Message-ID: 87y85ite6d.fsf () gimp ! org
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Hi,

"Edward H. Trager" <ehtrager@umich.edu> writes:

> ... regarding a proposal for an improved font selection drop-down
> widget that would be ideal for use in professional-quality Open Source 
> word processing, desktop publishing, and graphic design programs
> such as OpenOffice.org, Gimp, Inkscape, and similar
> programs.  

Interesting. The GIMP font selection scheme does certainly leave a lot
to desire. There are some good suggestions in Bugzilla, just waiting
to be implemented:

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137624
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150500

and somewhat related but more technical:

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168102

> The proposal also attempts to fully address aspects of
> internationalization related to font selection that I believe have
> been largely overlooked until now.

I don't think they've been overlooked. At least for the GIMP font
selection, the reason for the fact that the font selection is still
that simple, is lack of developer resources. Providing a common
framework might help to overcome this problem.

> Finally, the proposal suggests using a common XML configuration file
> which for storing font collection information.

Could this perhaps become part of fontconfig? We already have XML font
configuration there. Loading another XML file would slow down startup
further.


Sven
 
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