On 19 Jul 2009, at 05:55, Henrique Carvalho Alves wrote:
I did a mockup for a new gtk+ font chooser, as I find the current one
lacking from usability aspects, and wanted to gather some feedback.
If there's any interest,
please read the rationale at my blog:
http://hcalves.tumblr.com/post/144502395/one-thing-i-dislike-on-gtk-its-the-current-font
It looks like a nice clean design, at first glance -- I haven't tried
the code, so can't comment on the interaction details.
In addition to the other comments people have raised, might I throw in
a couple of ideas from other font selectors that I've found useful
over the years:
* The ability to create my own groups of fonts.
* The provision of a dynamic group that consists of (N) recently-used
fonts.
* The ability to use a slider or spinbuttons to increase/decrease font
size. Alberto mentioned this too, but the specific use case I have in
mind is when you have a selection of text in a document that includes
a mixture of font sizes (and potentially different fonts, but that
doesn't matter in this case), and you want to use the font dialog to
change the properties of that selection. With a slider, you can
easily increase/decrease all the different font sizes in the selection
by the same amount, which can be very useful indeed.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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