There’s a wishlist report for the Notes desktop widget suggesting a custom font selection:
I assume this is most likely supposed meant to enable handwritten/scribbled typefaces to complement the ‘sticky notes’ skeuomorph.
While thinking about how this could be implemented, I felt like it’d not be very elegant to implement a custom font setting just for that notes widget alone. It should probably be something system-wide so other applications can respect our choice of handwritten font too.
Right now, there are six categories of fonts we can customise in our system settings:
- general
- fixed width
- small
- toolbars
- menus
- window titles.
My perhaps naive solution to this would be adding a new category: handwritten/stylish. This could not only benefit the sticky notes, but also other skeuomorphic representations of manually written text.
I do lack knowledge about the inner workings of the font management though; that’s why I’m writing this forum thread instead of submitting a suggestion to the bug tracker.
For example, are these font categories standardised? Are they a part of Qt? Is it some Freedesktop or ISO thing?
Comments would be greatly appreciated.