The font selection dialog lacks filtering and grouping features, watch me try to find a font in a sea of system fonts: https://files.catbox.moe/995uim.webm
In this post I will propose 2 improvements. Font management in GIMP is nothing short of archaic, but it's not only GIMP's problem, you'll see a lot of people complain about it in Adobe Photoshop as well. (https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/how-to-organize-group-fonts-in-photoshop/td-p/4691695) One could say indiscriminate alphabetic font lists are a remnant of the older desktop landscape, where there weren't a lot of installed fonts. Before anyone tells me to uninstall "uneeded" system fonts, I hope your realise how ridiculous that is. 1. Automatic grouping. It's true, you already can search for tags, but I have to apply those tags manually. Every font that GIMP obtains from my system should automatically have the tag "System" tag. The other folder GIMP looks for fonts in my system is .config/GIMP/2.10/fonts/. I should be able to only see those fonts by typing "-System" (negative filtering). Further, I recently downloaded a font pack for manga scanlation: ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/fonts/$ tree -d └── scanlation ├── Blambot │ ├── ACME Secret Agent BB ... │ └── Zud Juice └── Comicraft ├── Absolutely Fabulous ... └── Zzzap 506 directories, 1592 files Since these are all under a directory called "scanlation", they should come tagged with that. The font Zud Juice should come tagged with "scanlation" and "Blambot". 2. Condense font families in some way: "It would also be wonderful if GIMP would condense its font list into families instead of displaying each individual one. Eg, Arial, Arial Italic, Arial Bold, and Arial Bold Italic could easily be one entry instead of four. Scrolling past a gazillion fonts just to reach the one I want to use is getting annoying.", Snowyn said in Mar 2016: (https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list/2016-March/msg00079.html) I find that the font selection dialog is especially useless if I /don't/ know what I'm looking for, since 80% of the list is clogged by contiguous blocks of the same family (with slight differences!), the font selection is a pain in the ass as "font gallery", it's unusable for "discovery". And I'm sure that if you're providing font previews then you admit you're not expecting users to know the precise name of every font they chose. Discovery is an intended element of the font browser, it's just been always, eh, crap. But it doesn't have to. _______________________________________________ gimp-gui-list mailing list gimp-gui-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-gui-list
