244471 - Font for composing mail is different from its setting.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[JongAm Park]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/124 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.1
Build Identifier: version 0.6+ (20040519)

If you try write a new mail message, then you will see that it is different from what you set with its 
preference.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check the encoding method for composing
2. check if the font being used for writing mail matches the setting
3.
Actual Results:  
doesn't match


Right now, in transition from 1.6 code base to 1.7 code base, broken features, which worked well 
before, are more  than ever. So, I think it is neccessary to check the correct behaviour by programmers 
rather than testers for the time being.

Comment 1

[Hiro]

There is no problem in Thunderbird personally built from 1.7Branch.

Mac OS X 10.3.3
version 0.6+ (20040523)

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

JongAm, can you reproduce this problem using a new Thunderbird user profile? How
about using Mozilla?

Comment 3

[JongAm Park]

Uh.. I'm sorry. Is the Thunderbird use "Fixed Font" for plain text message even when 
the display setting is "variable font"?

If so, there is nothing wrong.

Comment 4

[Hiro]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Uh.. I'm sorry. Is the Thunderbird use "Fixed Font" for plain text message
even when 
> the display setting is "variable font"?

Uh,
Even if it carried out a setup using "variable font" as the option of
Thunderbird, Compose was displayed by "Fixed font."
By the comment"1, it was a setup using "Fixed font."

Comment 5

[Misty]

I work on the email help desk at work.  One of our other help deskers got a 
call from a lady & I think she's having this same problem.  Also, I'm 
wondering if it's something similar to bug #239286.

Here's what Stephanie wrote me about Kathy's problem:

She wants to have her font blue and a little larger than normal as she can 
read it better.  I have changed the following settings in her T'bird settings 
(version 0 .7.3 20040803):

Display: 1) Plain text message display: changed color to blue; 2) HTML message 
display: changed color to blue.

Composition: 1) HTML Options: changed font to Times, changed size to medium 
and changed text color to blue.

Fonts: 1) Uncheck 'Allow messages to use other fonts'. 

Kathy's problem is that she will sometimes view a message and when she replies 
or forwards the message, her text color may go back to black and be a smaller 
size.  It will stay this way for any message she composes after that until she 
closes/reopens T'bird.  Can't reproduce the problem consistently.  I've also 
noticed on mine (when I changed my color) that certain messages display black 
instead of blue.  However, when I reply/forward, the text I type does display 
in blue.  Sometimes the original message will also change to blue.  Very 
inconsistent. 

Comment 6

[deleteaccount]

I am having a similar problem.  Tbird was okay, then I sent my notebook out for
repair and the repair guys changed my display settings and who knows what else,
so I have been mucking around for several days trying to get things looking good
again.

I have succeeded except that the text in the composition area and the text area
of incoming messages is very tiny, like I mean 6 point or 4 point if there is
such a thing.

I reinstalled the display driver, and have the Windows XP contol panel Display
seetings at Large fonts, 1024x768, and 96 dpi.  My guess is that for some reason
tbird is ignoring the Large font setting in those specific text areas.

I can use A+ to get a larger readable font, but it is a nuisance to do this for
each incoming message.  Also if I do that when composing a message, my hapless
recepients get 16 or 18 point fonts, even though the font looks like about 12
point to me when I'm composing.

I have tbird set to compose in html, display quoted plain text in
regular/regular, composition html is variable width medium, fonts are set to
12/12, minimum 12, 72 dpi.

I would be happy to send a 12 point font and have it look like 12 point when I
am composing, and have incoming messages not be tiny, but I can't seem to get
this to happen.  I have tied many many combinations of settings.  I think tbird
is just doing something odd about how it handles these text areas.  For exampe,
changing to large fonts changes the text size in its list of folders and lists
of messages, but left those text areas untuched.

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 273636 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The original report, if I can make any sense of comment 0, 3 and 4, can be 
summarized as:
  I set the message display option to "use variable font" but the plain text
  composition is done with a fixed font.

This is AS EXPECTED.  Plain text composer uses the font specified for Monospace, 
always.



Comment 5 (Misty) I believe is basically bug 203810 (bug 245581, bug 250539).

Comment 6 (Karen Anne):
> Windows XP contol panel Display seetings at Large fonts, 1024x768, and 96 dpi
> [...]
> I have tbird set to compose in html, display quoted plain text in
> regular/regular, composition html is variable width medium, fonts are
> set to 12/12, minimum 12, 72 dpi.

Why don't the two dpi settings match?

Are you sure that you have the right font settings?  Fonts are selected 
according to the character encoding, and are shown in preferences only for one 
encoding at a time; you have to be sure that the font settings you're looking at 
are those for the encoding being used for mail composition.

But -- this problem is unrelated to this bug as reported in comment 0; the fault 
lies with the very vague summary of the bug.

Comment 9

[Simon Garner]

(In reply to comment #8)

Perhaps you can explain why that should be the case then... it may be the 
intended behaviour, but from a user's perspective it's not the expected 
behaviour nor to me is it the desired behaviour.

> This is AS EXPECTED.  Plain text composer uses the font specified for 
Monospace, 
> always.