Comment 3 for bug 171617

Originator: YES

The vertical bars are also ok. The minor disadvantage is that the
minimum-width of such a vertical bar is larger than the minimum-height of a
horizontal bar.

The main point is that several tiny widgets should be incorporated into a
well-designed bar to aid in doing a common task. For example the
dialog-based fill/stroke should be turned into a bar (either horizontal as
shown in the mockup, or vertical). I frequently use the fill/stroke dialog,
at which point I have to do window-manager operations
(move-window-to-the-leftmost of the screen, ...) which is intrusive. Since
the dialog has many widgets it is not easy to fit it into a bar, so I tried
to figure which parts should be visible and which parts should appear on
demand (mouse-click, ...)

My point in the font-style bar is mainly the usage of generic font styles
rather than individual font names. (Generic name "Sans" as opposed to
"Dejavu Sans", or "Black" as opposed to "Textur")
The categories are not necessarily automatic, so one can customize the
generic names and the fonts under them for his/her own use. One category
can also be the recent fonts. Generally hunting good fonts from a large
list of fonts right before usage is not very convenient. A font selection
interface to categorize fonts and just selecting from small categories make
a better experience.