Re: [Usability]Another fontilus feature

[Per Cederberg <per percederberg net>]

Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> Hi Aschwin,
>
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Aschwin van der Woude wrote:
>
>
> > For fontilus I implemented a nautilus-properties page. See the following
> > screenhot for a preview:
> >
> > http://www.linux-aktivaattori.org/twiki/pub/Bazaar/GnomeTwoTesting/Screenshot-fontilus.png
>
>
> Perhaps it would make sense to have some example-sentence (Quick Brown Dog
> or something more original) in the properties instead of ABCD... I doubt
> the ABC-order makes any sense for that Tengwar font, either. ;)

The "A quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" sentence is great, 
especially as it contains almost all letters... in English.

Unfortunately there is an internationalization issue here, which I think 
MS solved by having different sentences in different versions. That 
doesn't work very well for those non-latin or symbolic fonts that I 
have, or for the fonts not supporting my native language. On the other 
hand, listing the latin alphabet doesn't work very well either, as some 
users prefer writing in other scripts (arabic, hebrew, or chinese just 
to mention some).

Sidetrack: How about adding a test input field? Ugly a sin, I know, but 
might come in handy for users who like to test what едц looks like in 
that particular font...

/Per