Adding font groups to font chooser

[Craig Drummond]

Hi,

I've been updating the font installation KControl module to have some basic 
font management features. One of these is the possibility to create groups of 
fonts. There are two basic group types - "custom" created by the user, and can 
contain any combination of fonts, and "writing systems" - this is built by 
examining each font, and determining with which writing system it is 
applicable. The font installer currently looks like:

http://home.freeuk.com/cpdrummond/fontinst.png

As part of this, I'd like to update the font selection dialog so that it can 
use the same font groupings. The font dialog would now look like:

http://home.freeuk.com/cpdrummond/fontchooser.png

I've attached a diff of the kdelibs/kdeui folder, and the kfontgroups source 
files. I placed the font group stuff into its own class, as I'd like to make 
similar changes to the font combo as well - however I'm not 100% how to do 
that yet. 

The code attached is probably not 100% to the kdelibs coding style, but I just 
want to know whether this (the font grouping) is an idea that is worth 
pursuing, or not.


Craig.
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