What does Hide/Show do? Just hide it or show it in the font list? If so, I don't know how important that really is.
J. On May 31, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Isaiah Beerbower wrote: > 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 >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
