On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:04 AM, William Klingelsmith wrote:
Hello everyone,
Upon reading Alexandre's post about submitting proposals ASAP, I fired off my idea. I would like to use this post to not only introduce myself, but to also share my proposal here.
Thank you for doing that :)
The final issue deals with the organization of typefaces in Inkscape. More often than not, a designer has several hundred typefaces installed on their computers. Inkscape's current type selection box indepedently lists all variations of a specific typeface. An example of this would be the presence of Helvetica, Helvetica Semi Bold, Helvetica Black, etc. This current arrangement makes an incredibly long list that the designer needs to troll through in order to find the face they want to use. This could be alleviated by collapsing all of the different weights of a typeface into one designation (in the example I just gave, it would collapse to Helvetica). A small box could be placed next the typeface selection box which contained all of the different variants. This would make it incredibly easy to pick and choose what typeface variant one was searching for.
I personally believe that managing fonts is a job already perfectly done by Fontmatrix :) Coincidentally text tool still requires a lot of attention and some work is not going to be done by Milosz, if I understand it correctly.
Here is a group of text related bug reports:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bugs?field.tag=text
Of them I would highlight:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170324 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171141
Separating face from family in the tool options toolbar alone would solve a number of issues.
Alexandre