294665 - RFE: Default HTML Options should enable setting default style

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Kilian Hagemann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux 2.6.11-gentoo-r4) (KHTML, like Gecko)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0.2 (20050511)

I'd like to compose ALL my messages in HTML with 'Paragraph' Style and Times  
New Roman as the font to standardise my communication.  
The Preferences -> Composition -> HTML Options allows for setting the font,  
size and colour only, but not the style. Consequently, whenever I compose a new  
email, the font is correct but the style defaults to Body Text which I don't  
want. To make matters worse, when I then change to 'Paragraph' from the 
drop-down menu manually the font changes back to variable width 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to HTML Options as described above and try to change default style 
   
Actual Results:  
see above 

Expected Results:  
The HTML Options dialogue should have an additional widget allowing the user to 
choose the default style for all HTML messages 

I don't know if this qualifies as a bug report(font change with style change) 
or an RFE because the former problem might just be a feature. 
It basically all comes down to not being able to edit HTML messages by default 
the way I want them to. 
Also, note that the reason I want 'Paragraph' style is to be able to hit 
<enter> to start a new paragraph (<p>) and not line (<br>), which is what bug 
#92686 addresses (hopefully this will be fixed by the next Thunderbird 
release?). At the moment I need to select 'Paragraph', then 'Times New Roman', 
then whenever I want <p> press <enter> twice, far from optimal.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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