This is happening with win2000
Open up Inkscape. Open up Text and Font dialog.
Mouse to various fonts and the display line updates to follow and display the font. So far so good. Now use the arrow keys. An outline moves from font to font but there is no display update, presumably because the font is not actually changing. Does it do so in Linux and should it change in Win?
In CorelDraw, fonts chosen with arrow movements are updated on the fly and this is a very rapid method of choosing and changing fonts. Our dot-and-carry mouse Inkscape method sucks in comparison.
In Inkscape updates follow arrow movements when choosing files to open and this is a very convenient method of prechecking photos etc.
With our font dialog are we talking a design feature?, a bug? or a desired behaviour?
vellum.