285132 - Message doesn't redraw when font prefs are changed

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Build: Thunderbird 1.0, Ubuntu Hoary 2005-03-03

To reproduce:
1.  Display a message in the message pane.
2.  Using View > Source, check which encoding the message is using.
3.  Open the Preferences dialog, and change the font prefs for that encoding.
4.  Click "OK".

What should happen:
*   The message updates to reflect the new font prefs.

What actually happens:
*   The message does not update.
*   As a result, it appears that the font prefs don't work at all, when really
    they do.

Comment 1

[Adam Kalsey]

Bug still exists in version 1.5 Beta 1 (20050908)

Changing the font causes the message in the preview pane to redraw, but changing
the font size does not. Changing only the font size does not cause a redraw.
Changing both the font and the size causes the message to redraw with the new
font at the old size. In order to redraw a message with new font size
preferences, you must open a different message and then reopen the original message.

Comment 2

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

I'm not seeing this in
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1pre) Gecko/2008070101 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre
-- IOW it seems to be Tb-specific and/or Mozilla1.8-specific.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Tuukka sees this in TB, not sure if trunk or branch

Comment 4

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

trunk 2008062712, and in particular what comment 1 describes

Comment 5

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Well, then it's both Trunk and Branch:
Branch Tb 1.0.x (Moz 1.7.x) (obsolete), see comment #0
Branch Tb 1.5.x (Moz 1.8.0.x) (obsolete), see comment #1
Trunk (Tb 3.x, Moz 1.9.x), see comment #2
Branch Tb2 (Moz 1.8.1.x) not mentioned, but I don't believe the behaviour was fixed before it and regressed after it.

But it's Tb and not Sm.

Comment 6

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

oops, trunk see comment #4, not #2

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Does this reproduce?

Comment 8

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #7)

Does this reproduce?

This still seems to be the case as far as I am able to repro in CTRL-U view (view source) mode and regular message view mode. This has changed a bit since this bug was first filed.

My STR:

1. Click on any message in your Inbox so it displays in the message pane and also do a CTRL-U for view source mode
2. Go to Tools > Settings > General > Fonts & Colors
3. Change from the default font and size (Calibri, size 17) to another font and another size

Actual result:
Changing font and size has no effect on message display font+size even after restarting TB. TB stays at what appears to be Arial font

Expected result:
It should display using the newly changed display font+size

Unless I am doing it wrong?