126062 - Tiny fonts

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[ibelooze]

When reading mail, the fonts in the message headers are tiny. That means the
sender/subject/date/etc. fields. 

The same problem with folder names, the "From" field when composing messages.

Under Netscape 4.6, I was able to adjust this via the .Xdefaults file.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

This might depend on your default system fontsize, available fonts, font server,
 dpi-setting in Mozilla and GTK theme.

I never saw the bug you describe, but i use TT-fonts, and in addition this in
prefs.js to masque the various occations where moz would otherwise show
unreadably small fonts:

user_pref("font.minimum-size.x-western", 10);

The digit is fontsize in px. You can set a higher number, of course.

I don't believe there are any intentions of using .Xdefaults for Mozilla.
The font stepping issue is dealt with in bug 111879.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 111879 ***

Comment 2

[ibelooze]

> This might depend on your default system fontsize, available fonts, font server,
>  dpi-setting in Mozilla and GTK theme.

All of the above is fine, I have thousands of available fonts. I don't know what
the default font size is.

> I never saw the bug you describe, but i use TT-fonts, and in addition this in
> prefs.js to masque the various occations where moz would otherwise show
> unreadably small fonts:

What are TT-fonts? 

> user_pref("font.minimum-size.x-western", 10);
> The digit is fontsize in px. You can set a higher number, of course.

I applied this line, adjusting the font size to 18 and it only applied to the
normal fonts
in the browser, not the header lines in the "Mail and Newsgroups" window.

> I don't believe there are any intentions of using .Xdefaults for Mozilla.
> The font stepping issue is dealt with in bug 111879.

I browsed that thread. What specifically must I do to increase the "Mail and
Newsgroups" window fonts? Get a configuration file?  

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

TT - True Type fonts.

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I don't see how this is a duplicate of bug 111879.  Shouldn't the fonts in the
UI be coming from system fonts from the OS?

Reporter: Does this problem still exist?

Comment 6

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

No response, so marking WFM. Bug 194500 might be helpful, though.

pi

Comment 7

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

not a duplicate

Comment 8

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Hm, it was marked as WFM, not a dupe. I have not seen this bug in many different
versions under Linux, actually I have never seen it. Since the reporter is not
available for comment, there is nothing we have here.

pi

Comment 9

[Sven Krohlas]

Marking WFM due to the last comment.
Reopen if your opinion is different and you can reproduce this with a
current build.