164668 - provide better font picker in mail compose window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 26288

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

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Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

provide better font picker in mail compose window.

rods asks me:  "why is there only three fonts in the mail compose window?"

I agree, the font related stuff in the compose window has problems.

looking at the two pickers, what do most users know about "fixed / variable" or
"body, paragraph, preformat"?  These things seem like HTML concepts that belong
in the html editor, not the mail compose for average users.

blake did some of this work, to remove those two pickers.  see
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146259

The patch in that bug isn't ready for prime time (see the list of issues in that
bug) but we should steal the font work he did for the trunk.

assign to varada to look into it.  cc manske, for editor related issues.

blake, if you want to take this, feel free.

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

Attachment: patch (initial)

Here is start. It needs to start out with the first item selected whcih it
isn't doing right now.

Comment 3

[Charles Manske]

This could be duped to bug 26288, but i'll keep this open in case you want it 
for tracking purposes.
The plan is:
1. If the number of fonts is < some limit (20?), then we simply build a font 
submenu similar to the patch in this bug or the one (2002-07-22 14:20) on 
bug 26288.
2. If the list is too long, we will list only frequently-used fonts in the 
submenu and provide an "Other..." item to launch a dialog. This dialog will have
a menulist with all available fonts and a font sample so you can see what they
look like.
If that plan sounds fine for mail Composer, feel free to dup this bug.

Comment 4

[Joel Nelson (don't send email)]

I don't know about a submenu -- why not just put the system installed fonts in
the main font drop-down menu.  If the list is too long, then show the first 35
or so fonts and then just the standard fonts after that point (Netscape 4.8 has
this same feature).   Keep the "body text / paragraph / preformat ..." menu -- I
find it useful.    
Proposing dup of 26288.

Comment 5

[Charles Manske]

Since no objection, I'm duping this to 26288

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26288 ***

Comment 6

[Vedran Miletic]

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