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Feature request: Pls. restore content of font selection pull-down menu in prefs. back to version 5 quality #22683
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Hi @xaverm thank you for the feedback! Indeed, that was something (kind of a regression in functionality) that we discussed while doing the changes to the combobox widgets at #21555. I think over that PR we discussed an idea to have an interface font preview widget (#21555 (comment)). Do you think such an idea would cover the combobox not displaying directly a preview of the font for you? Regarding the fonts name truncation, is there a way to disabled that when creating the combobox @ccordoba12 ? Or there was a reason to do the truncation? 🤔 |
After some consideration, I think Qt actually allows to set the font of combobox items. So, it should be possible to get the previous behavior back.
But I agree with @dalthviz that this a much better option.
I don't know what's happening there. Perhaps we need to set the width using the max number of characters of all font names. |
Yes, agreed, this request had two points to it, i.e., (i) the missing font display and (ii) the truncation of names. Regarding (i), I completely understand, that this part of the preferences does already have a "Preview" section. However, to get a font preview, now, one always has to actually select a font from the drop down list to 'see something'. This was not necessary with the fonts directly displayed in 5.x. Regarding (ii), this font-name truncation can be really confusing. Moreover it may be that there is some weird dependence between the number of characters of the font-name displayed and the display resolution(?) I.e. using spyder 'on-the-go' on my laptop, I had the impression there was even more truncation and a substantial fraction of the font names could only be guessed. (But I have not verified this dependence.) In summary, i.m.h.o. as a user, re-enabling full font-names would be of higher priority than re-enabling a font preview of some. But whatever you guys decide to do in the end - spyder remains my favorite! |
Problem Description
Preferences->Appearance->Fonts
provides a pull-down menu of fonts.Version 5.x did show (i) a font preview and (ii) the font names did fit into the pull-down's menu display.
Version 6.0.1 does not show a preview and the font names are truncated (with no obvious way to resize the lists width).
It would be cool if for this particular functionality, version 5.x's behavior could be restored in some way.
Thx.
What steps reproduce the problem?
Preferences->Appearance->Fonts
access the pull-down listWhat is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected output: See left of attached fig.
Seen instead: See right of attached fig.
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