Font installer re-design

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Wed Apr 24 20:47:16 BST 2002


On Wednesday 24 April 2002 06:50 am, Thomas Diehl wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 24. April 2002 17:30 schrieb Torsten Rahn:
> > > - they looked really great in english, but as squares in Hebrew or
> > > Arabic. May I suggest to have a preview that can be selected by
> > > encoding. I'm sure that the translators could translate a single
> > > paragraph to be previewable (like: "KDE 3.0 rocks <translation goes
> > > here>)...
> >
> > A much better solution would be an editable Preview so that you can
> > choose your own string (Gimp has something like that :-)
>
> The present implementation of the Font Installer has this as well (under
> Settings -> Appearance). Should probably become a bit more visible.

I think he means with "editable preview" that you can just type in the 
preview-widget itself. That was my first thought too. Unfortunately the 
preview widget isn't a normal line-edit (it does look like it) but a pixmap, 
so it will need some work to make it editable.

Cheers,
Waldo




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