[Bf-committers] Google Summer of Code 2006

[Chris Want]

Marc Chéhab wrote:
> hey,
> I was just reading trough the wiki and as I saw this:
> 
> Font previews/loading - ability to see the font as it would appear in 
> the font selection menu, similar to what is available in the gimp or 
> inkscape.
> 
> ...I thought that a neat feature that should be mentioned would be an 
> auto-selection of fonts (just as in gimp). so that you do not have to 
> search through the font files (that has to persist, naturally), but have 
> a popdown with previews of the fonts given by the os (X Server font 
> paths for example). or even some customized font paths (again gimp).

Hi Marc,

I'm not sure what you mean by "auto-selection of fonts" in
gimp. Tried googling, but didn't get any hits.

Regards,
Chris