On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 10:00:13AM +0100, Arnout Standaert wrote:
marc0047 wrote:
Basic fonts like Arial, Georgia, and Verdana are not showing up with
their
entire families in the Text and Font box.
Arial, for example, doesn't show up, but 'Arial Black', 'Arial Hebrew', 'Arial Narrow', and 'Arial Rounded MT Bold' does.
In another example, Georgia does show up, but its other family members, such as italic, bold, and bold italic, are not present.
Similar problems are present in Windows builds (Truetype fonts don't show in the list, Symbol for instance), and have been for a long time. AFAIK, this is a problem with the underlying font handling libraries (Pango), so the current option is to wait until font detection gets fixed over there.
We have a TON of problems like this in the codebase. By and large they're all due to the font selector widget. I think they're probably all fairly straightforward to fix, but no one is looking into them currently. There's a bunch of bugs that could be closed.
Would anyone like to devote a bit of time into investigating them? I don't think it'd take a huge amount of time to investigate, but a few weekends to track it down. I can give some pointers to get you going in the right direction if you're interested.
Bryce