Desktop/Whiteboards/BetterFontHandling: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 23:04, 10 November 2008

Possible areas for improvement in font handling:

Modernize the font selection dialog (see http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2008-August/msg00142.html)
Modernize the font tab in the appearance capplet
Make font installation easy. Packages may not be the best approach to fonts. If packages are the answer for now, at least make font installation automatic, as seen here
Implement side bearing deltas in cairo and pango (see http://osdir.com/ml/fonts.freetype.user/2007-03/msg00057.html)
Support CFF fonts in OOo ooo43029
Modernize the font selection in OOo ooo79878

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 * Modernize the font selection dialog (see http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2008-August/msg00142.html)
 * Modernize the font tab in the appearance capplet
-* Make font installation easy. Packages may not be the best approach to fonts.
+* Make font installation easy. Packages may not be the best approach to fonts. If packages are the answer for now, at least make font installation automatic, as seen [http://www.packagekit.org/img/gpk-client-font.png here]
 * Implement side bearing deltas in cairo and pango (see http://osdir.com/ml/fonts.freetype.user/2007-03/msg00057.html)
 * Support CFF fonts in OOo [http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=43029 ooo43029]
 * Modernize the font selection in OOo [http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=79878 ooo79878]