2008/8/17 Henrique Carvalho Alves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/8/17 Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> The problem here is that "Quick brown fox..." doesn't make sense in >>> any language. "Lorem ipsum..." also doesn't make sense for someone who >>> doesn't know it's a dummy text. A common user would just popup the >>> dialog and say "What means that? I can't read >>> <english/latim/whatever>!". Some users might even get offended. >>> >>> So I tough using the font name and size is random enough to provide a >>> preview with glyphs, spacing and numerals; is a short text; makes >>> sense inside the context; makes sense for international users; is >>> visually informative, as displays meta-information (the font you >>> selected in the font itself). Do you know any case were displaying >>> with the font name would be a problem? >> >> Imagine you are working in a western locale and selecting a font to >> write text in arabic. The font you are looking for does most likely not >> even provide the glyphs to render its name (as the font name will be >> shown in your current locale). >> >> Another example is a symbol font. It typically doesn't include any >> letters. >> >> Using the font name for preview does not work. You could try to add some >> heuristics that select a reasonable text depending on font coverage. But >> that is likely going to fail in some corner cases. So whatever you end >> up doing, you should give the user a way to change the text used for >> preview. >> >> Sven >> > > You're right. The current font dialog also fails for that (see Ubuntu, > which ships some fonts for other languages, and the preview just > presents a default "abcdABCDE" text in sans). I too guess finding the > glyph coverage for the font is hard and not reliable. As stated on the > last reply, making the preview editable is better, of course. The > question here: is using the font name and size as preview text a > better default? >
Second try, based on feedback gathered here: http://hcalves.com/media/files/fontselector2.tar.gz Full history, details and screenshots: http://hcalves.com/blog/2008/08/17/font-dialog-proposal-gtk/ _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list