FontInstaller (Was: Gnome Article on UI Design on /.)

[Thomas Diehl]

Am Montag, 22. April 2002 22:13 schrieb Waldo Bastian:

> > Font grouping/management was planned for the stand-alone version,
> > AFAIK.
> >
> > Thomas
>
> I see.. I was thinking about something like this then (see attachment)
>
> You can disable/enable individual fonts with the disable/enable buttons
> and you can save the enabled/disabled state into a profile with the "Save
> profile..." button. With the combobox you can select such a profile.

Sounds good, but what if I want to install both my "sans serif" and my 
"decor font" package? Aren't those profiles mutually exclusive?

> The "Advanced mode" checkbox changes the listview between a flat listview
> and a treeview with the different directories.

In your screenshot the "Advanced" box is checked but I don't see a treeview. 
Does this mean the treeview is for base mode only? Much as I am for an 
additional "package function" for advanced users (see posting in response 
to Craig) I would not want to lose control where exactly the fonts are 
stored. (For example I would like to keep fonts from different 
manufacturers in different locations or may want to have extra dirs for 
serif, decor, fixed width etc. Also I need an easy way to ensure that I 
don't have Type1 and TrueType fonts of the same typefaces installed.)

> Hm.. I guess the advanced mode needs to have a "make directory" button as
> well then and some way to move fonts from one dir to another. Would
> ctrl-x / ctrl-v suffice for that? That would be a rather hidden option
> since a control module doesn't have a menu.

I still think that 2 dir views (as we have now) with a drag and drop option 
and as much similarity to standard file dialogs and Konqueror would be more 
intuitive ...

Regards,

Thomas

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