Hi, "Edward H. Trager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ... regarding a proposal for an improved font selection drop-down > widget that would be ideal for use in professional-quality Open Source > word processing, desktop publishing, and graphic design programs > such as OpenOffice.org, Gimp, Inkscape, and similar > programs. Interesting. The GIMP font selection scheme does certainly leave a lot to desire. There are some good suggestions in Bugzilla, just waiting to be implemented: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137624 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150500 and somewhat related but more technical: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168102 > The proposal also attempts to fully address aspects of > internationalization related to font selection that I believe have > been largely overlooked until now. I don't think they've been overlooked. At least for the GIMP font selection, the reason for the fact that the font selection is still that simple, is lack of developer resources. Providing a common framework might help to overcome this problem. > Finally, the proposal suggests using a common XML configuration file > which for storing font collection information. Could this perhaps become part of fontconfig? We already have XML font configuration there. Loading another XML file would slow down startup further. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
