Font selection -- a solution

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

I had a flash of inspiration this morning biking into work.  I was thinking
about how most people only use a few fonts, most probably just the three
standard fonts (sans, serif, monospace).  So how about this:

At the outset, there is a font menu with the entries

Sans
Serif
Monospace
Other fonts...

plus the regular style menu.

Selecting other fonts opens a GtkFontSelectionDialog.  There, the user can
see the whole list, as well as samples of how they look.  When a font is
selected there, it is added to the font menu.  Extra fonts in the font menu
are stored persistently (with the possibility of LRU-ness).  This way, we
have a simple font menu that gives the user exactly the fonts he/she needs,
and for finding other fonts, we have the full power of the standard font
dialog. 

-Lars

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