Comment 13 for bug 343186

Great wok here, Jon. This solves aproblem for Mac OS users because of the problems of copying/pasting with X11 from native apps, like a character selector.

However, in using the beautiful rough cut tonight, I wasn't able to use it as expected, and I wonder if maybe I'm imagining that it will do more than it will.

When i open the glyphs dialog, select a dingbats font, such as wingdings, double click the item I want, it shows up in the field near the bottom of the dialog. I can copy it from there, and then paste it, using the text tool. However, the pasted text is showing up as something besides what I copied and pasted. So then I notice that the font is the default font, so i choose Wingdings, then paste again, but still it shows a semicolon instead of a printer's mark. I can do this on a few different fonts, where especially when it is not simply basic ascii, it doesn't come over into the canvas. What am I doing wrong?

Also, the way that I loved this tool in Corel Draw was that it allowed for a drag and drop from the dialog to the canvas, at which point it was immediately autoconverted to a path. I was hoping beyond hope that this glyphs dialog would do that too. Maybe it's too soon for 0.48, but a possibility for 0.49? I'd gladly donate for the feature, though I'd donate regardless.

Love what's been done in an amazingly short time. Thanks!