GNU bug report logs - #15856
Pick a Font window should have a third button so it needn't dissappear

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Pick a Font window should have a third button so it needn't dissappear
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 19:20:44 +0800

Why does the 'Pick a font' window not have an third 'apply' button,
so it can stay there while we are selecting fonts so we don't have to
dig it back out of the menus if we aren't happy with a font?

Message #8 received at 15856 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 15856 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15856: Pick a Font window should have a third button so it
 needn't dissappear
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 17:44:07 +0200

jidanni <at> jidanni.org writes:

> Why does the 'Pick a font' window not have an third 'apply' button,
> so it can stay there while we are selecting fonts so we don't have to
> dig it back out of the menus if we aren't happy with a font?

Starting from "emacs -Q", how do you get this "Pick a Font" window?

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 15856 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15856: Pick a Font window should have a third button so it
 needn't dissappear
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 07:18:14 +0800

<menu-bar> <options> <menu-set-font>

Message #16 received at 15856 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 15856 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15856: Pick a Font window should have a third button so it
 needn't dissappear
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 17:58:14 +0200

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:

> <menu-bar> <options> <menu-set-font>

This is

M-: (x-select-font)

which turns out to call xg_get_font, which (basically) just calls
gtk_font_chooser_dialog_new.  There doesn't seem to be any way to have
more buttons in that widget than there already is:

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkFontChooserDialog.html

We could change the meaning of "select" to "select but don't close the
window", but then you'd have to use "cancel" to choose the final font,
which would be even more awkward.

So I don't think there's any reasonable way to fix this, and I'm closing
this bug report.  If somebody comes up with a way to do this, please
reopen.

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