[UI-REVIEW] Move Font-settings to View-menu/remove them entirely
Submitted by Lars Weber
Link to original bug (#130561)
Description
I don't think that the font settings currently displayed at the top of the main window deserve such a prominent position. Actually the only font-related setting for which I can personally see justification to exist at all is the size of the displayed characters.
Size-selection I think should be changed in the following ways:
- The size-selection in the main window should be removed.
- The default size for the characters should be the users preferred default font size.
- The only interface for changing the size of the displayed characters (appart from shortcuts) should be the already existing "Zoom In"/"Zoom Out" menu items supplemented by an additional "Normal Size (Ctrl+=)" menu item.
- The zoom menu items should increase/decrease the character's size not by single points but in bigger steps similar to how zooming works in epiphany.
- Ideally size changes should be restored whenever gucharmap is restarted.
As for the font-selection I think it should just be removed entirely. gucharmap seems to be doing a pretty good job in choosing a font with which to display the individual characters (i.e. the setting seems to only select a preferred font; if there are characters missing in the selected font it automatically displays those characters in a different font). So I don't think there is a need for a special setting. Instead the font the user selected as his preferred one in the desktop settings should just be reused.
With the font-style/-variation (i.e. italic/bold) it's similar. The main functionality of gucharmap I think is to provide a way for users to select special characters to be inserted into a document. I don't think gucharmap should try to become (or even only give the appearance of beeing) a generic font viewer.
Version: 1.2.x