Hi!
There seem to be an awful increase, recently, in the number of bugs reported around the behaviour of the font family and font size selection toolbox in 0.46 (and it equally affects SVN as for now). There are also some outstanding Critical bugs - just some examples are:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168161 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168320 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168719 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/183179 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/218502 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/218502
I know often this is associated with Win32 platform but I have seen those on Linux as well. What seems to cause the problem often is when the default font (or font applied to the text) does not exist.
Would it not be nice, if one could enter any arbitrary font family name for a font and have Inkscape handle it gracefully.
I would like to help with this issue (OK, I can even abandon my Linux for a bit to help on the Win32 platform) but I still know too little of the Inkscape codebase. But what seems to me like a plausible solution would be to reproduce the functionality of the Text and Font dialog in the font tool bar.
I presume that many issues could be solved when SVG Fonts are finally implemented.
Just wanted to grab some of your attention though no doubt it is already on the issue :-)
Cheers, -- Marcin Floryan http://marcin.floryan.pl/ [GPG Key ID: 0D5581C5]