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gtk+ | gtk | Ver: 2.12.x Summary: Face sorting in GTK font chooser is suboptimal Product: gtk+ Version: 2.12.x Platform: Other OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: Normal Component: gtk AssignedTo: gtk-bugs@gtk.org ReportedBy: Nicolas.Mailhot@LaPoste.net QAContact: gtk-bugs@gtk.org CC: behdad@gnome.org, fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com GNOME version: Unspecified GNOME milestone: Unspecified
Font face sorting in the GTK font chooser (used by the GNOME appearance applet for example) is suboptimal
You get all regular faces, then all italic faces, then all bold faces, then all bold italic faces. In other words faces are sorted by font weight, then font slant, then not :( by font stretch
For a complex font family like DejaVu Sans the list looks like
Extralight Book Condensed Condensed Oblique (why condensed after book but condensed oblique before oblique?) Oblique Bold Condensed Bold Bold Oblique Condensed Bold Oblique
I think it would be much more user-friendly to sort fonts by stretch, then weight, then slant. That would give this kind of grouping which is much more close to traditional regular/italic/bold/bolditalic groups
Condensed Condensed Oblique Condensed Bold Condensed Bold Oblique Extralight Book Oblique Bold Bold Oblique
MS seems to have made this choice in its next-gen font selector (last page of http://blogs.msdn.com/text/attachment/2249036.ashx)
An alternative would be to expose separate stretch/slant/weight selectors
gtk2-2.12.8-3.fc9.x86_64
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gtk+ | gtk | Ver: 2.12.x
Behdad Esfahbod changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution| |DUPLICATE
------- Comment #1 from Behdad Esfahbod 2008-03-09 19:43 UTC ------- Guess I reported it first.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 354082 ***
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