1133743 - Account for Toolkit's style changes in about: pages ("Project Chameleon", bug 1097111)

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Themes, defect)

Description

[rsx11m]

Firefox is currently changing styles of several Toolkit pages. Since we are inheriting pages and/or styles from Toolkit, this requires respective action on the suite/ side. Possible are:

 - adapt XUL/XHTML pages to match CSS style changes on Toolkit side
 - adapt CSS pages to match XUL/XHTML changes on Toolkit side
 - fork XUL/XHTML/CSS pages to retain current styling

This is currently work in progress for various about: pages in the 38.0 cycle and tracked by bug 1097111 on the Firefox side. Not all about: pages are actually coming from Toolkit, thus may need individual per-page investigation.

Modern /may/ be easier than Default given that it comes with its own self-contained styles, whereas Default uses more of the Toolkit pages.

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

(Quoting [e-mail] from bug 1133380 comment #9)
> [...] many of them are specific to Firefox so don't affect us;
> about:neterror appears to be in that category. However there are some that will
> affect us such as about:about, buildconfig, cache, crashes, license, rights.

(Quoting rsx11m from bug 1133380 comment #10)
> Add about:support to the list, [...]

Comment 2

[rsx11m]

It is my understanding that the changes made in bug 1189918 and bug 1190465 now enable us to fork Toolkit style pages for the classic/default theme without harming theme developers, thus I've filed bug reports for affected about: pages that I'm aware and added those as dependencies.

Comment 3

[rsx11m]

[Placeholder for blocking bug to be filed] While bug 1222818 (to be amended by bug 1296433 for button appearance) found a nice set of styles for this specific page, it would be good to solve the common issues (like fonts, backgrounds, button appearance, etc.) in a global override of the Toolkit styles, thus avoiding having to do this for each about:* page individually.