[Scribus] font paths

[Franz Schmid]

Linus Gasser wrote:
> Hi,
> On Sunday 05 October 2003 21:09, Peter Linnell wrote:
> 
>>Because of the changes in the font discovery mechanism, the previews are
>>no longer available - it was done through Qt, which is no longer used
>>for font listing.
>>Just my opinion, but I am happy with the changes.
> 
> 
> hmm, too bad. Well, let's say that if I use scribus, I can go along with the 
> fact that I have to use kfontselect (or whatever) to look at the fonts. 
> Anybody else in my environment (your ordinary linux-user ;) would prefer to 
> have the 'real' fonts in the font-description.
>  Well, if you're programming for the pro's, the new behavior sure is better. 
> If you want to have it as DTP-for-everyone, the fonts should show 'for real'.
>  Why not make a switch, and put it 'for real' by default? Then power-users 
> (who'll know the program better anyway) can switch this feature off, gaining 
> some speed...
I already have some code for reenabling the font previews in the font selector.
But the problem is that it really looks ugly, the rendering code of freetype
isn't very good at small fontsizes. And even worse, Qt places the pixmaps in
the Menues centered instead of leftalignd.

So I decided that it would be better to leave out the font previews. But the
idea of making this a configurable option is something to think about it.

Best Regards,
Franz Schmid