Re: [Inkscape-devel] no dialogues, no icons
On Fri, 26 May 2006, bulia byak wrote:
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 09:41:49 -0400
From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...>
To: David Christian Berg <david@...407...>
Cc: ralf@...748..., inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net,
Milosz Derezynski <internalerror@...400...>
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] no dialogues, no icons
On 5/26/06, David Christian Berg <david@...407...> wrote:
> E.g. while it's great to have the text editing finally in the top bar
> (THANK YOU SO MUCH!) the font selector should be a combobox and not some
> self-hacked thing
What's wrong with it? It currently has accessibility issues but they
are fixable. Yet the usability advantage of the list with font samples
is significant.
Haven't seen this new widget just yet but you might want to take a look at
how Abiword (Gnome/GTK) previews fonts. The developers avoided showing
the font name using the actual font because for many fonts (like Dingbats)
it was unreadable and a preview at that size is not particularly useful.
Instead abiword pops up a temporarly floating window (a bit like a giant
tooltip) to preview the currently selected font at a decent size. Try it,
you might like it, or get ideas from it.
--
Alan