244693 - Front end support for Bug 244439 (Separate settings for on-screen and print fonts)

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Prognathous]

The suggested additions to the Fonts panel should look something like this:

Language (Western) -> Proportional Screen font -> Arial
                   -> Proportional Print font -> Times New Roman

Until Bug 95227 is fixed, Proportional Screen font should map to default.font,
while Proportional Print font should map to a new pref (e.g. default.print_font).

Prog.

Comment 1

[Roland Mainz]

prognathous wrote:
> Until Bug 95227 is fixed, Proportional Screen font should map to default.font,
> while Proportional Print font should map to a new pref (e.g. 
> default.print_font).

Please make such a prefs depend on the printer (like
"print.printer_foobar.print_font" for the printer "foobar", e.g. the prefs
should be build like the other printer prefs).

Comment 2

[Nicholas Allen]

Is this really such a high demand feature that it needs to be a visible pref? 
The font settings are already really complex...

Comment 3

[Prognathous]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Is this really such a high demand feature that it needs to be a visible pref? 
> The font settings are already really complex...

Ultimately, Bug 244439 will allow Mozilla to come with better defaults (Serif
fonts for print, Sans Serif for on-screen display). These new defaults will
provide a better user experience, but will also make prints look a bit different. 

The UI should make it obvious enough that print output and screen are not 100%
the same (in terms of fonts), and that if they do need complete WYSIWYG, a
relevant pref is exposed and easy to change.

Perhaps this should also be added to the Print dialog.

Prog.

Comment 4

[Prognathous]

Just to make it clear, in the last comment I wrote "they", but meant "users".

Sorry for the spam,

Prog.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This bug is about UI, right?  Then why's it filed on layout???

Comment 6

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".