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allow preview of selected font before applying it
Status:
RESOLVED: WONTFIX
Priority:
Very Low
Severity:
enhancement
Product:
Xfce4-terminal
Component:
General

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Description khwerz 2008-12-03 04:25:55 CET
add an apply button when selecing font for all applications that have a font selection
(well its really annoying opening the font selection menu repetitively)
(im sry if i sent something the wrong way i think this applies to all appz)
Comment 1 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2008-12-03 04:35:02 CET
Uh... what applications?  And how exactly would we do that?
Comment 2 khwerz 2008-12-03 19:42:36 CET
(sry for not explaining a bit)
well whichever application that has the ability to change fonts (Terminal is the most that i use, but most can have the selection), when you try to change a font you select a new font and yes theres a little example of the font.. but that isn't enough because some fonts go about and sort of merge or you can see dots because they're too big or whatnot, all that i ask is that there's an Apply button which applies the new font selection and the font selection window doesn't close,so one can keep checking and see which fonts are actually viewable, then that would save a lot of time.

how to do it? i really don't have the slightest idea since i am not a programmer...
font selection comes up 
change the font
click apply button
(window doesn't close :D)
and if you don't like it then you can keep searching for what doesn't burn you're eyes

well i hoped i explained it better, its possible right?
Comment 3 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2008-12-03 19:52:23 CET
Please don't change the milestone field.  It's not your job to set it, and xfce 4.6 is feature-frozen, anyway.

This is a per-application thing.  You'd need to separately add this to every application that has a font selection dialog.
Comment 4 Aaron 2008-12-05 03:13:22 CET
Just an idea, and this might be messy, but what about just having the font selection dialog on the Appearance pane of Terminal's preference window.  Would likely require changing the windows default size, but might be a good opportunity to refresh the look of the preferences window.
Comment 5 Nick Schermer editbugs 2009-06-27 21:29:27 CEST
Not possible, we use the GtkFontButton which handles the dialog on it's own, we cannot alter it (or it will bring an awful lot of code for hardly nothing).

Bug #4675

Reported by:
khwerz
Reported on: 2008-12-03
Last modified on: 2009-06-27

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Assignee:
Benedikt Meurer
CC List:
2 users

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