Re: [Syllable-developer] FontRequester...

[Daniel G. <da...@fp...>]

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 20:30 +0100, Kristian Van Der Vliet wrote:
> 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.
> 

One thing I've seen (I want to say it was in Word Perfect) was a font
selector where the name of each font was in that font.  That gives you a
pretty good idea of what the font looks like.

Daniel