Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gucharmap
1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System
-> About Ubuntu.
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
(This is Xubuntu)
2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy
packagename' or by checking in Synaptic.
gucharmap:
Installed: 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3) What you expected to happen
a) Click on the font drop-down
b) A list of fonts appears
c) Using the mouse or keyboard shortcuts, quickly select an arbitrary font from
the list of over 1900 installed fonts
4) What happened instead
a) Click on the font drop-down
b) A list of fonts appears
c) I can use the "Home" key to go to the beginning or the "End" key to go to
the end, but other than that I'm limited to slowly scrolling through the list
using the up and down buttons or the "Up", "Down", "Page-up", and "Page-down"
buttons.
According to `fc-list | wc`, my system has 1928 fonts installed. With
this many fonts, gucharmap's font selection drop-down becomes difficult
to use, since there is no way to jump to fonts that start with a
specific letter or to scroll to an arbitrary location in the list. The
usability could be improved by adding a scrollbar to the drop down and
by allowing users to jump to a font by typing in the name. For example,
"f" would jump to the first font that starts with "f", "r" to the first
font that starts with "fr", "e" to the first font that starts with
"fre", and so on.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 4 11:43:34 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gucharmap
Package: gucharmap 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: gucharmap
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64
** Affects: gucharmap (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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Font selection drop-down usability suffers when hundreds or thousands of fonts
are installed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/517148
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