Hello all, Thanks for all the responses!
I think what I'll do is add two features to FontManager: Hide/Show and Disable/Enable. Comments? Thanks, Isaiah Beerbower Quentin Mathé wrote: > Le 29 mai 07 à 22:32, Isaiah Beerbower a écrit : > >> Hello all, >> >> Just in case there's anybody who hasn't noticed, I'll first mention >> that >> I'm making a font manager for Étoilé. >> >> One of the features of my font manager will be disabling/enabling >> fonts. >> >> I'd like to ask anybody who uses fonts/font managers often (That means >> you Jesse) what reasons there are for disabling a font. Does the font >> need to become unaccessible to applications? > > In the past (in old Mac OS times), we had applications loading time > and memory consumption issues when more than one hundred fonts were > loaded. I think, it's mostly a thing of the past these days :-) > >> Or is it just to >> de-clutter the font panel? (i.e. hiding the font) > > This is the important reason because some applications provides their > own menu or panel which quickly gets unusable when you have more than > few dozen of fonts. > > Another reason was to solve font conflicts. I don't know if this > still holds. At least I haven't experimented such problem for a long > time. > >> And as a side note: >> If anybody has any suggestions, comments, or criticisms, I would be >> very >> glad to hear them. > > This blog entry may interest you: <http://www.markshuttleworth.com/ > archives/119> > > Cheers, > Quentin. > > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-discuss mailing list > Etoile-discuss@gna.org > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss > _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list Etoile-discuss@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
