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The main reason was to fix the crashes. The old dropdown was crashing on a small percentage of windows computers (presumably because of a font Qt couldn't handle). The new dialog hopefully wont crash and even if it does it will only crash when the choose font button is clicked and not when the containing preference dialog is instantiated, making the crashes much less of an issue.
The additional functionality - seeing typefaces, the ability to add fonts and the ability to search (which I will add for the next release) are just gravy.
Incidentally, I dont use this plugin, but wouldn't you want to give your users the ability to select a particular typeface, not just a font family? As in bold/italic/whatever.
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