Hello!
When I open up the font selection dialog in gimp, I see about 599 entries with the name "Noto Sans ... " and something or the other, with an interesting looking thumbnail to the left. However, when cycling through all these fonts, the appearance of the text never changes. It's an almost comically bad user experience. It probably has something to do with localization or whatever, but .. yes it needs to be fixed. I'm scrolling through a single list with 1000nds of fonts, all looking exactly identical. This is the wrong way. It could be so simple, just let the user put fonts in a folder, and browse the folder from within the font dialog...
I looked into hacking a way around this, like manually editing the tags.xml file but... not convenient.... If there are any other options, I'd love to hear about them. (adding tags via the interface, makes the interface freeze up.)
thnx !
ps I'm running linux mint 21.2
When I open up the font selection dialog in gimp, I see about 599 entries with the name "Noto Sans ... " and something or the other, with an interesting looking thumbnail to the left. However, when cycling through all these fonts, the appearance of the text never changes. It's an almost comically bad user experience. It probably has something to do with localization or whatever, but .. yes it needs to be fixed. I'm scrolling through a single list with 1000nds of fonts, all looking exactly identical. This is the wrong way. It could be so simple, just let the user put fonts in a folder, and browse the folder from within the font dialog...
I looked into hacking a way around this, like manually editing the tags.xml file but... not convenient.... If there are any other options, I'd love to hear about them. (adding tags via the interface, makes the interface freeze up.)
thnx !
ps I'm running linux mint 21.2