Drop-in replacement for QFontComboBox, better previews

[Celeste Lyn Paul]

On Tuesday 06 May 2008 09:05:14 Chusslove Illich wrote:
> >>> [: Stefan Monov :]
> >>> [...] why are fonts like "Penguin Attack" and "progenisis" drawn in
> >>> some generic fallback font? i.e. why aren't their names drawn using
> >>> themselves?
> >>
> >> [: Chusslove Illich :]
> >> My understanding is the following. It may happen that the font name
> >> cannot be rendered in itself, [...]
> >
> > [: Celeste Lyn Paul :]
> > At all or just in the list box?
>
> At all. If you select Symbols Something, or Webdings, and try typing
> normally, they won't show Latin letters.

Ah, I thought you meant when they break and you only see square boxes.  I 
thought maybe the list view couldnt display the character preview for some 
reason, but the user could still type them in the text editor (or vice 
versa).  If a character can't be displayed in the text editor, does it make 
sense they can still select it?

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Celeste Lyn Paul
celeste at kde.org
KDE Usability Project
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