Re: Gtk+ Font Dialog improvements

2009-07-19 Thread Henrique Carvalho Alves
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Henrique Carvalho Alves < hcarvalhoal...@gmail.com> wrote: > There was discussion on this some time ago, and the discussion got lost. > I'm trying to raise interest > on this issue again. > > I did a mockup for a new gtk+ font chooser,

Re: Gtk+ Font Dialog improvements

2009-07-19 Thread Henrique Carvalho Alves
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Henrique Carvalho Alves wrote: > > > There was discussion on this some time ago, and the discussion > > got lost. I'm trying to raise interest on this issue again. > > > > I did a moc

Gtk+ Font Dialog improvements

2009-07-18 Thread Henrique Carvalho Alves
There was discussion on this some time ago, and the discussion got lost. I'm trying to raise interest on this issue again. 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

Re: On font dialog default sample string selection

2008-08-18 Thread Henrique Carvalho Alves
2008/8/18 Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [CC'ing gtk-i18n-list] > > Henrique Carvalho Alves wrote: >> 2008/8/17 Henrique Carvalho Alves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> 2008/8/17 Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> Using the fon

Re: gtk-devel-list Digest, Vol 52, Issue 27

2008-08-17 Thread Henrique Carvalho Alves
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 fo

Re: gtk-devel-list Digest, Vol 52, Issue 27

2008-08-17 Thread Henrique Carvalho Alves
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 ca

Re: gtk-devel-list Digest, Vol 52, Issue 27

2008-08-17 Thread Henrique Carvalho Alves
> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:55:37 +0200 > From: Thorsten Wilms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Gtk+ Font dialog proposal > > It's very unfortunate that you can't filter for serif/sans and so on. > The Monospaced only checkbox means there's no variable-width only. I > think a "Show:" with a Fixed

Gtk+ Font dialog proposal

2008-08-16 Thread Henrique Carvalho Alves
Sorry for poking the list, but it might be interesting. First post here, let me introduce myself - Henrique C. Alves, Brazilian, IT student, Gnome enthusiast ;) The other day, while reading planet.gnome.org, I saw a post from Alberto Ruiz about a proposal for a new Gtk+ font dialog. I really like