Re: Font selection -- a solution

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Hans Breuer wrote:
> At 11:00 25.06.02 -0500, Lars Clausen wrote:
>>
>>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
> ----------
> LRU 1
> LRU 2
> LRU 3
> ...
> ----------
>>Other fonts...
>>
> Three words: fine with me!

Good!  It's coming along fine.

> A small addition though: the Last Recently Used listed should 
> be updated by selecting/displaying different objects with
> different fonts, too. That is: 
> - you are able to always show the current font of the object 
>   as pre-selection of the font option menu [new fonts not only
>   go into the LRU list by the Font Selector, but also by
>   selecting an object (and displaying it's properties), which uses
>   a font not before in the list]
> - you'll be able to unify a diagram which has many different
>   fonts without any interaction with the GtkFontSelectionDialog
> 
> If the underlying mechanics ot the new 'GtkFifoMenu' or 
> 'DiaLruOptionMenu' is implemented generic enough it can probably 
> easily be reused for the color selection case as well.

At the moment, it's not generic at all.  I just want to get it working,
and besides it's fairly tied in with the styles.  A color equivalent
wouldn't be hard to make once this is done.

> BTW: Lars, could you please comment on your font api breakage 
> stuff complained about in my previous mail:
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-June/msg00358.html
> 
> Or even better: revert it.

I'm still thinking about that.  Having a 'hole' in the weight list is bad.
Having two different values mean normal is also bad.  Hmmm...

-Lars

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