264503 - Truetype fonts not available in proportional font selection

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Beat Kappert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Suse 9.1 Linux box.
I have installed Firefox 1 preview manually (9.1 currently just offers and older
version).
I have tons of fonts installed on my Suse 9.1 Linux box. They are available to
other applications. But in Firefox when I do the following I do not get access
to these fonts:

Edit
Preferences
Fonts & Colors  -->

Under "Monospace:" I have all fonts available (including many proportional fonts
as far as I can tell).

BUT the combobox for "Proportional:" remains limited to just 2 font choices:
"Serif" and "Sans Serif".

This is bad, because a lot of websites (e.g. under URL) look pretty ugly with
the "Serif" font, "Sans Serif" is even worse.

I have adapted the advice from http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts
and have listed all my font directories in the following form in "user.js":
user_pref ("font.directory.truetype.1", "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera");

This changed nothing.

It may well be that I misunderstand the Firefox interface for "Proportional:",
but it should not be THAT hard to get good looking fonts for Firefox when they
ARE available on the Linux box.
Maybe the interface could be more self-explanatory or there could be a help
section added?

(I just realized that with the Windows version you also are limited to "Serif"
and "Sans Serif", but there they look good :-)

BTW: I have imported Windows fonts on the Suse 9.1 box.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit
2. Preferences
3. Fonts & Colors  -->
4. Try to select a different font under "Proportional:"
Actual Results:  
Limited to two fairly ugly looking choices of fonts.

Expected Results:  
"Proportional:" should let me choose all available proportional fonts installed
on the Linux box. Maybe. Or maybe the idea was something entirely different -
but one should somehow be able to make use of all available fonts in an easy way
under Linux.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.10.1/firefox-1.0PR-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz
and
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-gtk2+xft.tar.gz
(14 Oct) WFM on SuSE Linux 9.1. In prefs in both I set monospace to Bitstream
Vera Sans Mono, serif to Bitstream Vera Serif, & sans to Arial (from the
mswbfnts package). Both FF & Moz display
http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/fonts-face-index.html exactly as expected.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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