Re: Font chooser GtkAction migration

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 03:14:53PM +0000, Alex Valavanis wrote:
> Hi Tav and devs,
> 
> I'm currently looking into getting rid of the deprecated GtkAction usage in
> the TextToolbar.  It seems that the only sticking point is the use of the
> Ink_ComboBoxEntry_Action widget to select fonts.
> 
> It should be OK to migrate this to a Gtk::ToolItem, but before I do that, I
> just wondered if we had considered using the standard GtkFontButton (
> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkFontButton.html)?
> 
> This would provide a summary of the font face and size, but would pop-up a
> font-chooser dialog (
> https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm-tutorial/stable/sec-font-chooser-dialog.html.en)
> rather than providing an entry in a combobox.  This could result in a less
> cluttered toolbar, but I suspect there might be some "clever things"
> going on in our font support, and I don't want to break anything without
> asking!
> 
> Any thoughts?

Like Tav and Patrick mentioned, there's been a lot of customization work
of the font selector toolbar and dialog, and given that this is heavily
used by our userbase, even small behavior reductions may generate a lot
of complaints.  This is an area to be especially cautious with.

Are there any behavioral improvements that GtkFontButton would provide
over our current widgets?

Bryce