On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Henrique Carvalho Alves wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottr...@wfu.edu> 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 I find the > > > current one lacking from usability aspects, and wanted to gather > > > some feedback... > > > > I agree this is a substantial improvement on the standard dialog. > > > > I have one additional beef with the existing selector, admittedly > > more of a app-developer thing than a UI matter: the lack of any > > means of asking for a subset of fonts to be displayed, e.g. > > monospaced, or Roman text. > > There could be an option to call the dialog passing what filter > to use by default. > > There's already some filters (common fonts, fixed-width, > variable-width), if we can gather more data from Pango to > categorize fonts, more can be added.
I don't think there are _any_ filters available at present (although there used to be a long time ago, in GTK 1.2, and for a while that information persisted at some level in the GTK documentation, even though it was obsolete). I'm looking at the latest API docs at http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/GtkFontSelection.html and http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/GtkFontSelectionDialog.html The only "set" functions are gtk_font_selection_set_preview_text() , gtk_font_selection_dialog_set_font_name() and gtk_font_selection_dialog_set_preview_text() and you can't set a filter via the Properties of a GtkFontSelection either. Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
