186197 - Selecting fonts for multiple characters sets too tedious

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Devin Bayer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021210 Debian/1.2.1-3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021210 Debian/1.2.1-3

There are about 7 character sets in the font selection list that can use regular
iso10646-1 fonts, and most users will probably want each of those character sets
to use the same fonts and font sizes by default.
The way Mozilla's font preference dialog is designed those fonts must be
selected individually for each character set.  I timed myself and setting all
the fonts and sizes for one character set takes 50 seconds.  That is over 5
minutes just to set the default fonts for sililar character sets.
This bug is about designing a new user interface (UI) for selecting fonts that
is more efficent than the current design.  I will propose a suggestion.

1.) Have a "Default Fonts" character set in the dropdown menu.  Fonts and sizes
set there will apply to all possible character sets (with the encoding part of
the font different of course) that do not have explicit values set.  Then there
will be a new font in the dropdown menu for each style called "Use Default"; it
will appear at the top of the list and be the default selection.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

This isn't layout. Moving to Preferences.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

confirming bug