234826 - GUI does not use windows font if using StyleXP windows theme

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Phil Moorhouse]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

When using a 3rd party windows visual style using StyleXP, the FireFox GUI
defaults to Times New Roman and does not display the current system font. See
URL for image.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install StyleXP (if not already installed) http://www.tgtsoft.com/
2. Change to a non-standard windows theme http://www.themexp.org
3. Open FireFox Browser

Actual Results:  
FireFox uses Times New Roman for GUI text elements in toolbars, menus and dialog
boxes.

Expected Results:  
FireFox should display the GUI using the font defined in the current custom
visual style.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

does StyleXP change the windows fonts or does it use its own API?  If it doesn't
change the font via the standards windows API, nsITheme will use what the
Windows API returns.

Comment 2

[Phil Moorhouse]

(In reply to comment #1)
> does StyleXP change the windows fonts or does it use its own API?  If it 
doesn't
> change the font via the standards windows API, nsITheme will use what the
> Windows API returns.

I'm not sure, all I know is that FireFox is the only application i've used 
that doesn't display the visual styles in styleXP fully.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Firefox is a cross-platform app with a frontend written in XUL, not a native
Windows app, so it works a little differently.  We inherit the base fonts from
the native Windows API, but if StyleXP allows for bypassing this API, we don't
have a means to overcome this because we don't look for third-party APIs

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I don't think we have any intention of supporting non-native desktop environments.