Closed
Bug 297141
Opened 19 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
dpi setting ignored and/or breaks badly in deer park prefs
Categories
(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Gtk, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: vlad, Unassigned)
References
Details
(Keywords: useless-UI)
When changing the DPI setting in the Deer Park prefs dialog, the setting is either ignored, partially ignored, or entirely broken -- various breakage states I got into include rendering things with 3" fonts, as well as rendering 1px fonts in all XUL dialogs (when I tried setting a custom dpi of 110).
Comment 1•19 years ago
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Is this still happening? If so, should the UI just be removed if it's totally broken?
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Comment 2•19 years ago
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I'm thinking we should just remove it. Just re-tested with a nightly from a few days ago (branch), and on windows, it does basically nothing -- switching it to 72dpi from the default 96dpi causes no change, and causes the dropdown to have nothing selected next time I go to it. I'll try linux a bit later, but I don't expect much improvement.
Comment 3•19 years ago
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Right, seems pretty broken here too, no time to fix, don't think it ever really worked. Patch tomorrow.
Assignee: nobody → mconnor
Keywords: useless-UI
Comment 4•19 years ago
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It certainly worked fine in GTK1 builds at some point. Whatever broke, we should probably fix it in the new cairo world... Do we have a bug on that? If not, we should file one.
The cairo work plus Eli's units patch should make dpi work well.
Comment 6•19 years ago
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*** Bug 312701 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•19 years ago
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Assignee: mconnor → nobody
Comment 7•19 years ago
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I'd like to add a comment on severity -- this is rightly recorded as a major bug, because it renders some websites unreadable if you are working on a laptop. I need vision correction to read news.bbc.co.uk as FF renders it; I can read IE without vision correction because it defaults to a more readable dpi. Many folks encountering this problem would not be willing to use FF instead of IE. That makes this a high priority problem. I see that the priority field is not filled in; I don't know exactly how that gets used, but it seems to me that this is should be marked highest priority.
The DPI pref does work on GTK -- but it should only affect fonts on Web pages specified in absolute units (pt, in, cm, mm). I agree the UI should probably be removed; it's broken in various ways, and most users shouldn't have any need to change the pref from the default (which should be -1, but isn't).
Comment 9•17 years ago
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Fixed by bug 326329 and bug 327406 -> WORKSFORME
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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Updated•15 years ago
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Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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