I’d like to suggest an improvement to the Fonts dialog

Sarreq Teryx

So I originally posted this to KDE Discuss, but according to someone there, it's a Qt standard dialog.

I’ve had gripes with how KDE’s Font Selection dialog works for a while, and would like to suggest some changes.
The major points are:

The Font List is unbearable to use, it should not be listing EVERY variation of each font family, only the top level font family (eg. Noto, but not Noto Sans Myanmar Thin, Noto Serif Javanese Bold, etc)
It’s past time to support proper handling of variable fonts.

font dialog suggestion.png

I’m not a programmer, so this is only a clickable mockup:
QtDesigner source file

For those who like the cumbersome AF current Face list, there’s the drop list at the top for that

jsulm

@Sarreq-Teryx This is user forum. If you want to request a change you should do that here: https://bugreports.qt.io

TomZ

@Sarreq-Teryx said in I’d like to suggest an improvement to the Fonts dialog:

originally posted this to KDE Discuss, but according to someone there, it's a Qt standard dialog.

I think you've been told by the KDE people to either write the code, or go away :-D

KDE definitely can fix any issues you point out on their side, there absolutely is no requirement for them to use any Qt widget as a whole in their desktop if it is not good enough for them.

TomZ

@Sarreq-Teryx as an aside.

KDE is still on Qt5 and are slowly moving over to Qt6 today. The various features your mockup requires are only available in the latest Qt6, so you're probably asking a bit early. Like asking about pretty wallpaper while the foundation is just drying.