150113 – Need of a more sophisticated font selection tool than a pull-down list.

Bug 150113 - Need of a more sophisticated font selection tool than a pull-down list.

Summary: Need of a more sophisticated font selection tool than a pull-down list.

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 88416

Alias:	None

Product:	LibreOffice
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version: (earliest affected)	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	medium enhancement
Assignee:	Not Assigned

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Blocks:	Fonts Font-List
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Reported:	2022-07-23 15:02 UTC by Yan
Modified:	2023-01-30 18:33 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

See Also:	88416
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Description Yan 2022-07-23 15:02:26 UTC

This is a feature request aka. a wish.

Situation:
My operating system installs about 2500 font files on its own. It is near to impossible to select a font needed from that pull-down list if it tries to display all of them together with an example. Even in the advanced Format/Character dialog, selecting the proper font is not easy presumed you don’t know the proper name.

Proposal:
There should a configurable filter to define what fonts shall be displayed, and which shall not (e.g. the numerous Noto fonts). Some working environments favor the one or the other font for use in documents and some fonts only make sense in certain languages, so if possible, there should be a way to define working environments with their peculiar lists of fonts.

Comment 1 Rafael Lima 2022-07-25 17:16:38 UTC

This sounds like an interesting idea.

Maybe you could provide some mockup to better explain your idea.

Comment 2 Rafael Lima 2022-07-25 17:19:00 UTC

Maybe a duplicate of bug 88416 ?

Comment 3 QA Administrators 2023-01-22 03:28:36 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

Dear Yan,

This bug has been in NEEDINFO status with no change for at least
6 months. Please provide the requested information as soon as
possible and mark the bug as UNCONFIRMED. Due to regular bug
tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDINFO status with
no change in 30 days the QA team will close the bug as INSUFFICIENTDATA
due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our NEEDINFO policy please read the
wiki located here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/Fields/Status/NEEDINFO

If you have already provided the requested information, please
mark the bug as UNCONFIRMED so that the QA team knows that the
bug is ready to be confirmed.
 
Thank you for helping us make LibreOffice even better for everyone!

Warm Regards,
QA Team

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Comment 4 Buovjaga 2023-01-30 15:50:36 UTC

(In reply to Rafael Lima from comment #1)
> This sounds like an interesting idea.
> 
> Maybe you could provide some mockup to better explain your idea.

(In reply to Rafael Lima from comment #2)
> Maybe a duplicate of bug 88416 ?

Yan: we are waiting for your reactions to these messages.

Comment 5 Yan 2023-01-30 18:17:38 UTC

Sry I don't have a suitable tool to create a mockup and never did that before.

Close the bug, do whatever you like (e.g. write a mockup that suits your personal needs). I still have the problem with the great number of fonts but I haven't got enough time to find a proper solution.

Comment 6 Buovjaga 2023-01-30 18:33:39 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 88416 ***