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, 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
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 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
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 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
Hi all,
Bit of discussion about tabs on this list. :)
My review of tab implementations in GNOME [1] is pretty much finished.
There's a list of relevant bugs and mailing list threads, a summary of
the usability issues as they exist now, and a review of existing
implementations (across different ap
Hi Henrique
Your mockup looks nice. I do not understand exactly the problems you
wanted to solve, but I have a couple of suggestions and questions.
1. The font family names in column "Family" should be displayed in the
font family they represent. This avoids having to click on the family
name to
