Re: [Syllable-developer] FontRequester...

[Kristian V. D. V. <va...@li...>]

On Tuesday 07 June 2005 15:57, Dag Wastberg wrote:
> On 6/3/05, Rick Caudill <syl...@ho...> wrote:
> > So I finally started to code again last night and got some of the
> > FontRequester done :)  You can see a screenshot here:
> > http://students.cup.edu/cau0730/fontrequester.png
>
> This got me thinking a bit about UI and selecting fonts, and I really
> don't think that most font names mean much to most users.  Personally
> I generally know if I want a fixed width or proportional font, and
> perhaps if I want serif or sans-serif or perhaps if I want a script
> like font, but this doesn't help me select a font, and I still have to
> click on all of them to see what they look like.

What we need to do (& what I intend to do at some point) is modify the font 
management so that font aliases can be created.  Then an application can 
simply request a serif font and get the default font configured as the serif, 
or a web page can specify Times New Roman and ABrowse can display a 
Times-like font.  That's just not a huge priority right now though.

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