On 19 Jul 2009, at 05:55, Henrique Carvalho Alves wrote:
I did a mockup for a new gtk+ font chooser, as I find the current one
lacking from usability aspects, and wanted to gather some feedback.
If there's any interest,
please read the rationale at my blog:
http://hcalves.tumblr.com/post/14
2009/7/21 Mackenzie Morgan :
> Er...I thought Gentium was considered a humanist font? That's definitely a
> serif font.
:-P
What part of "people like me who don't know a lot about typefaces"
didn't you get? ;-)
I got all my knowledge about sans-serif classes at the Wikipedia page:
http://en.wiki
On Tuesday 21 July 2009 7:52:11 am Diego Moya wrote:
> I'd like to see fonts classified by type category:
> - Serif vs sans,
> - old-style, modern, script and display typefaces in serif,
> - grotesque, realist, humanist and geometric in sans-serif,
Er...I thought Gentium was considered a humanist
I'd like to see fonts classified by type category:
- Serif vs sans,
- old-style, modern, script and display typefaces in serif,
- grotesque, realist, humanist and geometric in sans-serif,
- high vs low readability
- professional vs amateur
This would greatly help people like me who don't know a l
Henrique Carvalho Alves wrote:
There was discussion on this some time ago, and the discussion got lost.
I'm trying to raise interest
on this issue again.
I did a mockup for a new gtk+ font chooser, as I find the current one
lacking from usability aspects,
and wanted to gather some feedback. If
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 10:57 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> b) Most times, the user won't know which particular value does he want
> for the size. This is most times a guess work, this guessing implies
> clicking on every number, and eventually scrolling up or down until
> getting to the point the use
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 07/19/2009 10:42 PM, Henrique Carvalho Alves wrote:
>
>> I wanted feedback from someone more experienced in the Gtk+ stack and C,
>> willing to implement this mockup, maybe a branch or patch against
>> GtkFontSelection(Dialog), and lever
On 07/19/2009 10:42 PM, Henrique Carvalho Alves wrote:
I wanted feedback from someone more experienced in the Gtk+ stack and C,
willing to implement this mockup, maybe a branch or patch against
GtkFontSelection(Dialog), and leveraging
pango_language_get_sample_string() for providing a better pre
Hello there,
I did some work[0][1] time ago and I actually wanted to talk about
improvements on the dialog with Behdad during Guadec, although the
schedule went against us.
I want to point out that the most common usecase for the font
selection is often dismissed. People just want to look for a f
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Henrique Carvalho Alves wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Henrique Carvalho Alves wrote:
> >
> > > There was discussion on this some time ago, and the discussion
> > > got lost. I'm trying to raise interest on this issu
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Henrique Carvalho Alves wrote:
> There was discussion on this some time ago, and the discussion
> got lost. I'm trying to raise interest on this issue again.
>
> I did a mockup for a new gtk+ font chooser, as I find the
> current one lacking from usability aspects, and wanted
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Henrique Carvalho Alves <
hcarvalhoal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There was discussion on this some time ago, and the discussion got lost.
> I'm trying to raise interest
> on this issue again.
>
> I did a mockup for a new gtk+ font chooser, as I find the current one
> l
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Henrique Carvalho Alves wrote:
>
> > There was discussion on this some time ago, and the discussion
> > got lost. I'm trying to raise interest on this issue again.
> >
> > I did a mockup for a new gtk+ font chooser, as
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Henrique Carvalho
>
> The mockup is functional and implemented in Python + Glade. It's available
> at my Launchpad:
>
> https://code.launchpad.net/~hcarvalhoalves/+junk/gtkfontdialog
>
>
> I would appreciate feedback from user and developer viewpoints, and further
There was discussion on this some time ago, and the discussion got lost. I'm
trying to raise interest
on this issue again.
I did a mockup for a new gtk+ font chooser, as I find the current one
lacking from usability aspects,
and wanted to gather some feedback. If there's any interest, please read
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