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Wed Jan 16 00:01:39 CET 2008


<Sho_> Hm well, my first impression is this: I don't see the format in the shot as an imrovement over the current table view, since it basically shows the same data just in a format that has you scroll more to get an overview, which I find less desirable. However the move to that list style would be more justified if it would show more/different data, like a font preview right in the list.
<Sho_> If I consider why I would ever use the font list, it's this: I open a document, I see a font I like in it, and I want to find out the name of that font, so I go into the list, scan for the font I like by looking for its preview, and then see the name.
<Sho_> And that would be speedier and more discoverable with an in-line preview vs. a tooltip I might never know about.
<Sho_> In the above scenario, if there's no preview or I can't find it, I have to Google for all the font names in the list I don't know and compare the images I find to the document to find out which name is the name of the font that I like.
<Sho_> However if there's a preview, Okular has just saved me lots of time and I'm happy and tell my friends Okular is a great tool to discover fonts in PDF documents. ;)


In fact, I wonder if it would be possible to build a color chooser-like tool into the dialog, i.e. activate the tool, click on text in the document, and the list selects the responsible one. Pino? ;)


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