[Adium-devl] A possible solution to the text-font problems

David Smith catfish.man at gmail.com
Thu Feb 8 19:52:42 UTC 2007


Personally I think this is massive overkill, as well as somewhat  
unintuitive (I 'inspect' it to change it?* How... quantum). I'd say  
that iChat has basically the right idea.

										David

*I'm aware inspectors are a common OSX idiom, but they usually don't  
emphasize the "inspect" verb quite so much. Also they tend to confuse  
people anyway.

On Feb 8, 2007, at 10:07 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> As those of us who follow IRC and/or feedback know, users are  
> having lots and lots of problems with setting their default font.
>
> Here's my proposal:
>
> <AdiumTextInspector.png>
>
> 1. Enabled when the radio button group is set to #3 and the  
> selected text possesses the relevant attribute (e.g. if you are in  
> some text which has its own foreground color, the “Reset” button  
> for the foreground color will drop the foreground color from the  
> selection).
> 2. Set automatically when you click “Configure Incoming Font…” from  
> the Messages Preferences.
> 3. Set automatically when you click “Configure Outgoing Font…” from  
> the Messages Preferences.
>
> This window would be available from the Format menu, as well as the  
> aforementioned two buttons in the Messages Preferences.
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