159253 - Font help for Proportional needs work

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Documentation Graveyard :: Help Viewer, defect)

Description

[timeless]

This is one of those if it looks like a shoe and feels like a shoe, then I
expect it to be a shoe. or something...

steps:
edit>preferences>appearance>fonts

see bug 159252.

Help needs to explain why it is that when I select Sans-serif/Serif it magically
bleeds through.

Here's the relevant help text:
    *  Fonts for: Choose a language character set. For instance, to set default
fonts for the Western (Roman) character set, choose "Western."
          o Proportional: Select whether proportional text should be serif (like
Times Roman) or sans-serif (like Arial). You can also specify what font size you
want for proportional text. Proportional text is variable in width, so
characters and letters vary in width.
          o Serif: Select a serif font you want to use for web pages.
          o Sans-serif: Select a sans-serif font you want to use for web pages.
          o Cursive: Select a cursive font you want to use for web pages.
          o Fantasy: Select a fantasy you want to use for web pages.
          o Monospace: Select a monospace font (like Courier) you want to use
for web pages. Monospace text is fixed in width, so each character or letter
takes the same amount of space.

The help text (new bug?) implies that I should be able to select proportional
independently for each 'language character set'.

Suggested solution: fix the other bug and then move the proportional help to
match its new location

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Are you using a template?

Gerv

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 183593 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

-> documentation

Comment 4

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

moving stuff over to an outside-the-firewall email for the time being, looking
for people to pick these Help and doc bugs up for me.

Comment 5

[R.J. Keller]

--> me

Ian Oeschger doesn't work on mozilla anymore.

CC Nilson: Doc Bug ;)

Comment 6

[R.J. Keller]

kovu: do you have some time to spare to fix this bug? If so, reassign to
yourself and cc me.

Comment 7

[James "Kovu" Russell]

I'm sorry, I don't even know what's wrong here. Can someone explain this to me
like I was a child?

Comment 8

[Daniel Wang]

The font setting panel is arranged as if Proportional Font setting is
language-dependent. It's not. Change to it applies to all language. This is a UI
problem. Proportional Font setting should be moved outside of the group box.

suggest wontfix since this is a UI problem, not Help problem.

Comment 9

[R.J. Keller]

> suggest wontfix since this is a UI problem, not Help problem.

oh, I think I misinterpreted the bug. If it's a UI problem, it should be
reassigned to another component, not marked wontfix.

Comment 10

[James "Kovu" Russell]

--> Browser

If this is ever changed, we'll change the help files accordingly.

Comment 11

[James "Kovu" Russell]

Tweaking summary.

Comment 12

[James "Kovu" Russell]

Cripe; Sorry, I just made a dupe of 159252. Reassigning to us and making
dependent on that bug.

Comment 13

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Bug 95227 is now fixed, proportional now works as the Help text implies.

--> Invalid

Comment 14

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

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