Closed Bug 129963 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Ability to use any font on your computer in mail compose

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Composition
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 26288

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: vparthas)

Details

Build ID: 2002030803 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open mail compose. 2. Try to choose a font on your computer. I have a choice of, um, three fonts: "Helvetica,Arial", "Times", and "Courier." This is insane. IE lets me choose any font on my computer. Was the rationale here that not everyone has all fonts installed? If so, so what? In any event, quite a few fonts have become standard. Most people, for example, have Verdana and Tahoma. This is very easy to fix. See pref-fonts.js for how we populate those menulists with installed fonts -- just use nsIFontList. I would be eternally grateful to whomever fixes this, as there's just no way I'll get my mom to use 6.x without this (she loves using fonts). hwaara, maybe you can take a look? We're stuck working on nsbeta1+ stuff.
FYI, I am working on nsbeta1+ stuff (i.e. important bugs) as well. I'll look into it if I have time.
BTW, I do agree that one should be able to use any font of choice. Jglick, do you agree?
dup of bug 107877?
No. I thought so, but that's just asking for defaults.
-->varada
Assignee: ducarroz → varada
Charlie, do you know if there is a reason only limited fonts are available?
We just overlay this stuff from Editor, so either they would have to change it, or we could make some sort of mail-specific popupmenu with _all_ available fonts.
We don't want to encourage using OS-specific fonts. We would like to have a UI that makes users add specific fonts to a list like Dreamweaver, not generate a list of all fonts installed. We already have a bug on this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26288 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
I just don't understand this. The reality is that 95+% of the consumer market is using Windows. Why are we penalizing all of them so that the minority can read all fonts, especially when the penalty (falling back on a boring font) isn't bad at all? My mom is not going to figure out a Dreamweaver-like UI that forces her to add fonts. She will not hesitate to use Outlook Express, which lets her choose the font she wants, just as Microsoft Word does.
Verified dup.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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