189729 - changing defn of serif font changes sans-serif fonts in UI

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 175025

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Peter Dalgaard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

In the font preferences setting, you can change the font used for "serif", but
if you do so, the fonts in the user interface, e.g., the File-Edit-View labels
change as well (on next startup). These are normally in a sans-serif font, so
logically shouldn't be affected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Edit/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts
2. Set entry for "Serif" to (say) Utopia
3. Start a new Window or relaunch Mozilla

Actual Results:  
Top Menus, URL Entry field, Toolbars, Sidebar all changed to Utopia

Expected Results:  
Unchanged from default (or use setting for Sans-serif)

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

related to bug 175025?
Reporter: Are you using a xft build?

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

Reporter mailed:
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Yep. Directly from

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.3a/Red_Hat_8x_RPMS/xft/RPMS/i386/

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 175025 ***

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v dup