Text and Font dialog preview becomes too large with large fonts, browsing fonts gets difficult

Summary:

grafik

When the font is large and the text is longer than one line, the preview can make the font list hard to browse. It would be nice to have a min size for the font list that shows a bit more than 3-4 lines of fonts.
It would also be nice if there were less of a padding around the preview at the top, so the space can be used more efficiently.

Steps to reproduce:

  • open Inkscape
  • open Text+Font dialog
  • write a multiline text and make it large, e.g as in for a poster

What happened?

The preview gets so large that it gets difficult to browse the font list.

What should have happened?

A better balance between realistic preview and usability of font list needs to be found. E.g. only 3 lines preview, min size for font list, make better use of available space by reducing top margin of preview.

Version info

Inkscape 1.2 (1:1.2+202205241504+da316b6974)

    GLib version:     2.64.6
    GTK version:      3.24.20
    glibmm version:   2.64.2
    gtkmm version:    3.24.2
    libxml2 version:  2.9.10
    libxslt version:  1.1.34
    Cairo version:    1.16.0
    Pango version:    1.44.7
    HarfBuzz version: 2.6.4

    OS version:       Linux Mint 20.3