GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 150500
Group font faces by family in the font selection dialog
Last modified: 2018-05-24 11:11:18 UTC
It would be great it the Text Tool dialog had a way to make the text Italic and Bold. In Photoshop, they have a combobox next to the font selection combobox that allows you to change the font to "regular", "italic", "bold", and "italic & bold".
The font style is choosen by selecting a regular, bold or italic font. There's no way this can be implemented as text tool options. What you are asking for is an improved font selector.
Created attachment 30762 [details] Screenshot of requested option Screenshot of option that I mean.
I guess that it what I mean. Extending the options for the actual font would be perfect. Underlining is another font option that I forgot to mention.
It is not a font option. Let me give an example. "Arial Regular" and "Arial Bold" are two different font faces that are usually distributed in two different font files. What you are asking for is changing the font selector so that it groups styles of the same font family. Underlining on the other hand is something completely different...
Oh, I see now. Yeah, if the fonts could be grouped like what Photoshop does then that would be great. Thanks!
but some chinese fonts use one font to implement bold, italic, and I can't select these style from the fonts dropdown list.
but some chinese fonts use one font to implement bold, italic, and I can't select these style from the fonts dropdown list. I can use these style fonts in other gtk program.
Fontconfig and Pango should take care of handling fonts with multiple faces. There might be something that GIMP would have to do to so that the additional faces become available. That is however orthogonal to this enhancement request. Please open a new bug report for it.
Just so you realize how ugly this can get... It's really a tree structure that you need. Consider the following choices, in "Family, Face" ordering: Ariel, Regular Ariel, Bold Ariel, Oblique Ariel, Bold Oblique Ariel, Smallcaps Ariel Rounded MT, Normal Ariel Black, Normal Melanie, (girly) Yes I have a font on my system with "(girly)" as the face. Anyway, one might wish to group Ariel Black with the rest of the Ariel fonts, even though the family name differs. All this is of course awful for the user interface. Most users just want checkboxes for bold, italic, and underline. Perhaps simple and advanced modes would be helpful, one with a full tree view and one with old-style simplicity.
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