Fix #102714: Interface Font Selection #113259

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Harley Acheson merged 3 commits from Harley/blender:UIFontSelection into main 2023-11-16 22:07:41 +01:00
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When selecting fonts for the interface, show thumbnails
and start in the user-specified fonts directory


If you go to Edit / Preferences / Interface / Text Rendering you can select custom fonts for "Interface Font" and for "Monospaced Font". Unfortunately when you click the "folder" icon to launch File Browser you will not start in your Fonts folder, will not be filtering fonts, and you might not be in thumbnail view (unless the last time you selected something else you were in thumbnail view). This adds many steps to navigating to fonts, viewing fonts, etc.

This patch makes it so that it will open in the user-specified fonts folder (currently set to nice defaults for all platforms), in thumbnail view, filtering for font files, sorted alphabetically:

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This is offered as a far simpler alternative to https://archive.blender.org/developer/D13937 or https://archive.blender.org/developer/differential/0015/0015986/index.html

This only alters the behavior of BUTTONS_OT_file_browse, adding defaults for when the path is empty. If so, for font path properties it uses U.fontdir as path (or BKE_appdir_font_folder_default if that is blank too), and forces on font filtering, preview mode, and alphabetical sorting.

When selecting fonts for the interface, show thumbnails and start in the user-specified fonts directory --- If you go to Edit / Preferences / Interface / Text Rendering you can select custom fonts for "Interface Font" and for "Monospaced Font". Unfortunately when you click the "folder" icon to launch File Browser you will not start in your Fonts folder, will not be filtering fonts, and you might not be in thumbnail view (unless the last time you selected something else you were in thumbnail view). This adds many steps to navigating to fonts, viewing fonts, etc. This patch makes it so that it will open in the user-specified fonts folder (currently set to nice defaults for all platforms), in thumbnail view, filtering for font files, sorted alphabetically: ![image](/attachments/5257e6e9-f5c4-4e46-aaca-662f64476f72) This is offered as a far simpler alternative to https://archive.blender.org/developer/D13937 or https://archive.blender.org/developer/differential/0015/0015986/index.html This only alters the behavior of `BUTTONS_OT_file_browse`, adding defaults for when the path is empty. If so, for font path properties it uses U.fontdir as path (or BKE_appdir_font_folder_default if that is blank too), and forces on font filtering, preview mode, and alphabetical sorting.
Harley Acheson added 1 commit 2023-10-04 20:40:36 +02:00
753c8eae55 UI: Interface Font Selection
When selecting fonts for the interface, show thumbnails
and start in the user-specified fonts directory
Harley Acheson added this to the User Interface project 2023-10-04 20:41:26 +02:00
Harley Acheson requested review from Campbell Barton 2023-10-04 20:41:33 +02:00
Harley Acheson changed title from UI: Interface Font Selection to Fix #102714: Interface Font Selection 2023-10-16 19:42:13 +02:00
Harley Acheson added 1 commit 2023-11-12 17:50:51 +01:00
Harley Acheson added 1 commit 2023-11-16 20:59:43 +01:00
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