On 01/24/16 03:16, ken wrote: > On 01/23/2016 06:20 PM, Alice Wonder wrote: >> Sometimes the direction of UI development in gnome really angers me. >> >> For example, when selecting a font for the gedit text editor - there is >> no way to ask it to only show monospace fonts. >> >> It's a fricken text editor, that should be the default - meaning you >> have to do something special to get fonts shown that aren't monospace. >> >> Seriously, who is in charge with the UI design in gnome? >> >> Whoever it is needs to be fired. >> >> /rant > > A long time ago there was a utility called something like xfontsel with > which you could toggle any of the some-two dozen properties of fonts, > e.g., you could filter out all italic fonts or show just the 12-pt > fonts. Yeah, it took ten minutes the first time to figure out how the > utility worked, but then you had a tool that worked, was effective and > streamlined, and you didn't even need a mouse to use. Just looking, I > didn't find it with yum, but it looks like it's still out there, albeit > a mousey version: http://linux.die.net/man/1/xfontsel > > I agree with others about the wayward tabletization of what's supposed > to be a productivity tool. Last month, the touch pad on a new laptop > getting in way of that productivity big time, I wrote in code on gnome's > website how much fun it wasn't-- i.e., how to disable the touch pad: > https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Playground/TouchPadPark Alice, maybe > you'd drop them a suggestion to include xfontsel, if you find it better > than their thinking, to replace the boffotude they're gifting us with. > > Since I'm in rant mode, who broke the code for 'whereis'? > > $ whereis xfontsel; echo We need a newline. > xfontsel:We need a newline. > $ > > New rule: No smoking the good stuff at work. > > [mlapier at peach /]$ yum whatprovides *xfontsel Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security Determining fastest mirrors <snip> xorg-x11-apps-7.7-6.el6.x86_64 : X.Org X11 applications Repo : base Matched from: Filename : /usr/bin/xfontsel Other : xfontsel -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ****