GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 137194
font chooser dialogue fails to distinguish font variants
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Description of Problem: If you have multiple fonts with the same name but different variants, Gimp appears unable to choose between them in the font chooser dialogue box. Example: fc-list | grep -i 'antique' | grep -i olive Antique Olive:style=Bold Antique Olive:style=Compact Antique Olive:style=Black Antique Olive:style=Nord Antique Olive:style=Nord Italic Antique Olive:style=Roman Antique Olive:style=Light Antique Olive:style=Italic Antique Olive:style=Bold Condensed Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. make new image 2. choose Text tool ("T") 3. double click text tool to get tool options 4. resize tool options pallete if necessary so that the Font: [Aa] label and button are visible 5. click the Aa button 6. after a few seconds a popup appears with a list of fonts; click the button in the bottom right hand corner, "Open the font selection dialog" 7. scroll down until you see the same font name repeated on multiple lines. I'll attach a screen-shot to this bug too. Suggested fix is to include the variant or style information after the font name, in the list, and of course to make sure that the corresponding font is in fact used.
Created attachment 25644 [details] screenshot of confusing or broken font chooser dialogue box
This is a Pango bug that has been fixed in the meantime. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131561 ***