183031 - Change "Like Times" to "Like Helvetica" when default font changed to sans-serif

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Camino Graveyard :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Stephane Moureau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021201 Chimera/0.6+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021201 Chimera/0.6+

If you change in the Fonts Advanced panel the default font to be Sans-serif,
when you come back to the first panel, the static greyed text remains (Like
Times) instead of (Like Helvetica).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[S Woodside]

Should change the "like Times" to "e.g., Times" or "example: Times" to avoid
confusion.

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

This could be an RFE. I'll change it, but not confirm it, and let the developers
decide if they want to do it. I don't know that it's really necessary.

Comment 3

[Stephane Moureau]

Might be obsolete if RFE of bug 184102 is accepted.

Comment 4

[Jasper]

Josh please take a look

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Still valid in a sense. "Times" is no longer said, but "serif" remains even when
no longer a serif. As comment 3 says, however, could become obsolete.

Comment 6

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I think this should be INVALID.  If users wrongly set their serif font to a
sans-serif font (instead of changing their default font from serif to
san-serif), it shouldn't be our problem that the label doesn't match their
incorrect choice (to have their serif and sans-serif fonts both be sans-serif).

If the user properly sets the default font to sans-serif, the labels correctly
change from "Proportional (Serif)" and "(like Times)" to "Proportional
(Sans-Serif)" and "(Like Helvetica)" since Simon fixed bug 289549.

Moreover, short of a) every font starting to identify itself as "serif" or
"sans-serif" etc., or b) manually hard-coding a list (!), there's nothing we can
do to fix this.  Well, c) show both serif and sans-serif on the tab at the same
time, but that's bug 184102.

Comment 7

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Closing per previous comment.