Drop-in replacement for QFontComboBox, better previews

[David Jarvie]

On Tuesday 6 May 2008 10:30, Chusslove Illich wrote:
> By displaying the font previews using the font names themselves,
> QFontComboBox is lacking somewhat especially on localized desktops with
> non-
> Latin1 characters. E.g. for a long time I had to pick-n-try to see if a
> given font really has Cyrillic support or not.
>
> So I propose a KFontComboBox which reimplements the preview painter so
> that
> also shows text sample in desktop's language. A sample of the original
> QFontComboBox appearance and the proposal for that of KFontComboBox is
> given
> here:
>
>   http://caslav.gmxhome.de/image/kde4-qfontcombobox-01-c.png
>   http://caslav.gmxhome.de/image/kde4-kfontcombobox-01-c.png
>
> (so it can be seen that English too will benefit from the new preview for
> some crazier fonts.)

Good idea. Showing the same text snippet in each font will make comparing
fonts easier.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author & maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm