If peolpe have suggestions on how the current dialog could be improved please make suggestions, as I'm a little short of ideas. I should probably mention the Text dialog does need to continue to exist as there is far more text functionality than could reasonably fit in the toolbar (there was a bug report suggesting the dialog was redundant).
I've been looking over the Text and Font dialog and have a few comments:
1. It doesn't make sense to keep the entry window on the Text tab grayed out and unusable when a new text entry point is designated on the canvas. One should be able to begin to type immediately in the window rather than having to wait until one character is typed with the Text Tool over the canvas. This is probably a source of much confusion.
2. It would be useful to put a message such as "No text selected" in the window on the Text tab instead of leaving the text from the last selected text there.
3. The Font Family in the dialog is not updated when text is selected using the selection tool (it is when text is selected with the text tool).
Tav