Is it possible for Inkscape to store the font previews in a file instead of having to re-draw them all each time Inkscape is re-opened (and the font dialog clicked on).

The reason is if you have a large number of fonts on the system, it takes a very long time for Inkscape to re-draw them all, and in the meantime the user can do nothing but wait (nothing else can be done in Inkscape until all the previews are complete).

Ideally, Inkscape would only re-draw these previews when fonts are added or updated, and even more ideally, NOT at the time when the user opens the drop-down font chooser. Seems like something which could be checked when Inkscape starts up?

Thanks for looking at it, Alex!

-C

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 8:01 PM Alex Valavanis <valavanisalex@...972.....> wrote:

Ok thanks for the feedback... I expected that this would be a can of worms, so I'm glad I checked!

I'll go ahead with migrating the existing widget to a tool-item derivative so we don't lose any of the existing functionality.

AV

On Mon, 11 Feb 2019, 19:55 Bryce Harrington, <bryce@...961...> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 03:14:53PM +0000, Alex Valavanis wrote:
> Hi Tav and devs,
>
> I'm currently looking into getting rid of the deprecated GtkAction usage in
> the TextToolbar. It seems that the only sticking point is the use of the
> Ink_ComboBoxEntry_Action widget to select fonts.
>
> It should be OK to migrate this to a Gtk::ToolItem, but before I do that, I
> just wondered if we had considered using the standard GtkFontButton (
> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkFontButton.html)?
>
> This would provide a summary of the font face and size, but would pop-up a
> font-chooser dialog (
> https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm-tutorial/stable/sec-font-chooser-dialog.html.en)
> rather than providing an entry in a combobox. This could result in a less
> cluttered toolbar, but I suspect there might be some "clever things"
> going on in our font support, and I don't want to break anything without
> asking!
>
> Any thoughts?

Like Tav and Patrick mentioned, there's been a lot of customization work
of the font selector toolbar and dialog, and given that this is heavily
used by our userbase, even small behavior reductions may generate a lot
of complaints. This is an area to be especially cautious with.

Are there any behavioral improvements that GtkFontButton would provide
over our current widgets?

Bryce

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