Fontconfig - Nov 2005 - Categorised Fonts

Around 16 o''clock on Aug 14, "<::... Teresa_II ...::>"
wrote:
> Hier is my mockup on gimp to show what Idea i have.
> It would be nice to have per user defined Font Categories.
We''ve talked a bit about how to split fonts up into groups so that you 
could limit the scope of the font menu in applications, but I don''t
think
we''ve considered letting people build hierarchies within the font
system
(for it''s not a large step to consider catagories of catagories).

I''d like to see something like this become possible, but for it to be 
useful we would have to get applications to change their interface (which 
can take a *long* time...).  An alternative would be to have some way of 
limiting the fonts returned from the listing functions; this would let 
users customize their interface without affecting font matching otherwise.

I guess I''d like to see a mechanism which can work with existing 
applications while allowing new applications to have better interfaces.

-keith

Hi all,

first, sorry for my english.

Hier is my mockup on gimp to show what Idea i have.
It would be nice to have per user defined Font Categories.

So first link for look:
http://myeburg.net/font-cat/

It would be nice, to have this feature in fontconfig. Or we cann start
new projekt based on fontconfig API thats extend fontconfig lib for same
more functions, like SetFontCategory() and GetFontCategory() and etc.

I am not so familar with font architektur, and i am not sure where to
start.
How i know, at time no OS can do this with fonts. And it can be a realy
good feature. Peoples, who like design have very much fonts in their
systems. And to find same font takes much time. And it can be much easer
if you can define own categories.

Categories must be defined for every user by it self.
There can be just one startup category - default, where are all fonts
that dont belong to category.

One font can belont to many categories.

I think info about user categories must be saved in user home dir in xml
form.

About implementation. I am not realy sure if there is new font-category
lib needed. But i am also not so sure if categories are fontconfiglib
job.

Where must be samethink like fontilus for gnome, that give user same
interface to manage his fonts. But it is not our problem now. At first
there must be sam API for this.

What you think ? Where can we start ?

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