Re: Fontilus in GNOME 2.x
"Aaron J. Seigo" <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 19 April 2003 05:03, Vadim Plessky wrote: > What do KDE users/developers think about Fontilus in GNOME 2.x branch? > Screenshot: > http://primates.ximian.com/~dave/screenshots/Screenshot-Fontilus.png KDE has had icon thumbnails of font files for some time, and the last i heard on kde-core-devel regarding the font installer, which works pretty well as it is, was that craig drummond was busy writing an ioslave version of it so that you can get to it from konqueror or any other appropriate app. this includes keeping the control panel which then simply becomes a front end to the ioslave (allowing it to simplify quite a bit, it seems)... it's a bad idea to only have access to it from the file manager because that requires special knowledge. there should be an icon SOMEwhere for it that users can easily find. that means putting it somewhere they'll look. like the configuration area. i'm glad to see GNOME doing better in the world of ease of use and catching up with some of KDE's tricks... that helps keep their users happy and satisfied. - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass' http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+oZz91rcusafx20MRAlabAKCbsaRdnQ5JYZu1eILJYp4Ck0HaJwCfb0uX 9x0pSFbn9RMEsBtNWZ/tJw8= =TuhG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.