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Bug 170013 - please rob/borrow Font preview widget from Abiword
please rob/borrow Font preview widget from Abiword
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 695031
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: GUI
1.5.x
Other All
: Low enhancement
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Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
: 309198 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-11 22:29 UTC by Alan Horkan
Modified: 2013-03-03 00:37 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Alan Horkan 2005-03-11 22:29:35 UTC 
abiword has a pretty cool widget to preview whatever font you are looking at
from the dropdown list.  it would be nice if Gnumeric had that too.
Comment 1 Morten Welinder 2005-03-12 18:43:33 UTC 
This should happen mostly by itself when/if abi dumps that widget into goffice.
But first the goffice dust needs to settle, I guess.
Comment 2 Jody Goldberg 2005-03-14 04:32:12 UTC 
That would certainly be nice to have.
libgoffice is the place for it.
Comment 3 Morten Welinder 2005-06-30 14:56:21 UTC 
*** Bug 309198 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Andreas J. Guelzow 2011-05-08 23:23:55 UTC 
I suspect this is simply an outdated bug. What are the differences between these two widgets?

Both have three columns for Font, Style and Size respectively.
Both have checkboxes for Strikethrough, superscript and subscript.

Abiword has a single checkbox for underline while Gnumeric allows forthe choice of 4 types of underline.

Abiword has a checkbox for overline which is not available in Gnumeric.

Abiword has a separate tab to select colours while Gnumeric has a combobox for popular colours and a separate dialog for custom colours. The latter is equivalent to the Abiword tab.

Abiword has  "Highlight Colour" tab which really is a background colour tab. In a spreadsheet program like Gnumeric it makes more sense to have the background colour associated with a whole cell.

I think this is simply an outdated bug. --> WONTFIX
Comment 5 Vidar Braut Haarr 2011-05-09 01:14:47 UTC 
Andreas, take a look in the main Abiword window there is a dropdown allowing you to select the current font face. Open the dropdown and hover your mouse over some of the fonts and you'll see a fly-out box with a font preview.

I can not be sure, but I am assuming that this is what the reporter was suggesting be implemented in the main Gnumeric window as well.
Comment 6 Andreas J. Guelzow 2011-05-09 02:34:31 UTC 
That would explain the "low" priority...
Comment 7 Alan Horkan 2011-05-14 03:49:22 UTC 
[Sorry, very old email address I don't check very often anymore.] 

Vidar is correct. 

Let's just say I was a little more optimistic about Gnome Office libgoffice when I filed the request.
Comment 8 Andreas J. Guelzow 2013-03-03 00:37:38 UTC 
Bug #695031 is asking for something even more useful and I would think if we ever change the font selector that we would be going that way.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 695031 ***