615887 - Don't use "sans-serif" font on Linux

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Spinning off from bug 614796 comment 16 so that bug can stay where it was historically:

(In reply to comment #15)
> David: that only happens on that specific page in Italian? Not sure why it
> doesn't happen everywhere.

Tested in Fedora and it does happen everywhere.

> We need to find a way to force Linux to not do horribly wrong things with text,
> though that demonstrates how close Italian is cutting it with fitting text into
> that spot.

I think specifically we can never let Linux fall through to the fallback
"sans-serif" font. I don't know what it's using but it's so wide it's almost
monospace.

Comment 1

[Underpass]

I'm also testing it in Windows 7 and it happens as well

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; it; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101130 Firefox/3.6.13

Comment 2

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I'm also testing it in Windows 7 and it happens as well

Works fantastic on Windows 7 for me (though it's cutting it close). Can you get a screen shot?

Comment 3

[Underpass]

Attachment: Screenshot taken on 64-bit Windows 7

Comment 4

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Oh that button is a separate issue. Filed bug 615895.

Comment 5

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Per conversation in IRC, we're going to use MetaBlack as the fallback for Trebuchet MS for the top items, and keep the drop-downs in the font they are now.

That is, the menu items will have font-family: "Trebuchet MS", MetaBlack, sans-serif;

If you're somehow running IE on Linux, well... things will still be broken but it's the least of your problems.

Comment 6

[David Tenser [:djst]]

fwiw, this doesn't look very good in elinks.

Comment 7

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

master:
https://github.com/rlr/kitsune/commit/c1772241c4e4c6b9308fcdccccdcc57f1cd0123f

2.3.x:
https://github.com/rlr/kitsune/commit/6769d97b63ca2e2d1ec0dc926003dc866705cd74

Comment 8

[Rebecca Billings [:rbillings]]

Verified Linux menu items have font-family: "Trebuchet MS", MetaBlack, sans-serif