[Fontconfig] Categorised Fonts

Keith Packard
2005-11-21T08:50:50Z

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