Hi Brad,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Fuller" <brad at bradfuller.com>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
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Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 11:46 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] FreeType Plus release


> Andrew Tween wrote:
> >>> All the menus really need re-working to provide nice scrolling lists.
> >>>
> >> Hmm, I'd say "to not need to scroll nor page in the first place" :)
> >>
> > :)
> > Do you have any ideas on how that could be done?
> > If, for instance, you had 999 fonts?
> >
> > A fisheye, everything tiny, until you hover over it view?
> > Or typing the font name to bring up matches?
> >
> > I'm curious
> >
> Could use cascading menus. based on mfr, or type/kind, or even alphabetical

Those are all good ideas.

But, wouldn't scrolling still be needed, at some point?
If you had 999 fonts beginning with 'A'.
Or, 999 Sans Serif fonts.
Or maybe, not that many fonts, but a small screen resolution (640x480).

Cheers,
Andy