Comments for tastes like candy

Comment on The Type Tester by Lailson Bandeira

Lailson Bandeira — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:58:29 +0000

Hi Annie,
Nice project! May I make a suggestion to you? You can draw some _inspiration_ on Fontcase. =D

Comment on The Type Tester by Bugsbane

Bugsbane — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:54:22 +0000

I would absolutely *love* this plasmoid. Thankyou for working on it. How many times have I dried my eyeballs out flicking through 1000 fonts without blinking in Inkscape?

My main (overly excited list of) suggestions would be:
* Minimise the extra space between fonts so I can see more in the same vertical space
* Add a filter bar so I can see just fonts that have, for example “Sans Serif”. Eventually it would be *awesome* to be able to tag fonts with Nepomuk and filter by these, too. I understand this is probably a “bit” beyond the scope of your plasmoid though!
* Have an option to replace “Page 1, Page 2 etc” with the first few letters of the font names eg “Mon-Tah, Tah-Ver” if the page 1 shows MonoType through Tahoma and page 2 shows Tahoma to Verdana.
* As others have stated, something to compare fonts. A simple “add to list” icon (using the Oxygen bookmark icon) that showed the selected fonts at the bottom/side.
* A “copy to clipboard” icon next to the text displayed in each font. This way you could just enter your text. Browse the fonts. Click “Copy to clipboard” and paste in the app you needed the text.

Thankyou so much for working on this. Thus far almost every plasmoid I’ve seen (beyond the default desktop ones) have been a novelty only. This is one I would actuall *use* regularly.

Huzzah!

Comment on The Type Tester by Anders

Anders — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:41:53 +0000

Hi Annie,
nice idea, I also regularly have that task

I would suggest something like the digikam lighttable, where you have a list of images thumbs and two bigger ones which can individually be replaced with one from the icon list. That way you can quite easily compare them until you find the best one.

Comment on The Type Tester by Albert Astals Cid

Albert Astals Cid — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:17:36 +0000

I’m with anon here, i fail to see why this should be a plasmoid, seems the typical “i have a hammer so everything is a nail” problem

Comment on The Type Tester by Ivan Čukić

Ivan Čukić — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:05:51 +0000

Long time no see. Sorry that I’m not more involved in PAB after the SoC – I’m in a mess right now (normal job, I’ve started teaching, dealing with nepomuk…)

PAB looks nice (with some we-all-know-about issues)

About the applet, why don’t you replace the tabbar with a combo box?

Cheerio!

Comment on The Type Tester by Kirys

Kirys — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:49:11 +0000

I’ve done something similar many years back for windows.
My suggestion is the possibility to select some of the fonts from the complete list and be able to see only the selected subset in a different tab.
This would allow to make a pre selection of the candidates in a faster way that remove the one you don’t like (useful for large font collections).
(that was the behaviour of my tool )
Cya
Kirys

Comment on The Type Tester by anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:40:55 +0000

Nice, but why is it a plasmoid and not a normal application?

Comment on The Type Tester by marcel

marcel — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:34:03 +0000

Hi Ana,
nice plasmoid. Keep up the good work! I also often have to compare fonts, so from the screenshot, that you posted, I would suggest the following changes:
- instead of showing the fonts just one below the other, put two dropdownlists near eachother (there is much space left on the right side now). If there are 2 dropdown-lists, you can choose font1 and font2, so you can compare them better to eachother.

Comment on Tokamak3 and Widget Explorer evolution by anniec

anniec — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:08:53 +0000

@redm well, yeah… The explorer is attached to the panel, so there must be a vertical version to the vertical panels

Comment on Tokamak3 and Widget Explorer evolution by anniec

anniec — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:06:29 +0000

@vojacik the short description comes inside the tooltip. That was a decision made some time ago not only by me. There’s no way yo put description under the icons. 3 lines of text e too much text