298302 - Font preferences reset after restart of Camino

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[mandarax]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Camino/0.9+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Camino/0.9+

In Preferences - Appearence - Fonts set the preferred font size to 16pt. After a
restart of Camino the value will be the default value of 14pt again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.In Preferences - Appearence - Fonts set the preferred font size to 16pt.
2.Restart Camino

Actual Results:  
The value will be the default value of 14pt again.

Expected Results:  
Save the setting the user did.

I looked into the preference file ~/Application Support/Camino/prefs.js before
changing the font size and after. Camino seems to delete the setting
user_pref("font.size.variable.x-western", 16); when trying to write into it
after the user closes the preference panel instead of updating it. The whole
line was gone from prefs.js.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

WFM with 20050619.

If you move your existing Camino profile (~/Application Support/Camino folder)
to the Desktop, then start Camino and reset the pref, does it stay now?

Comment 2

[mandarax]

(In reply to comment #1)
> WFM with 20050619.
> 
> If you move your existing Camino profile (~/Application Support/Camino folder)
> to the Desktop, then start Camino and reset the pref, does it stay now?
>
I put my profile aside as suggested. Changing _only_ the default setting of the
default font was saved and stayed between sessions.

# Mozilla User Preferences

user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "");
user_pref("browser.startup.page", 1);
user_pref("browser.startup_page_override.version", "0.9a1");
user_pref("font.name.serif.x-western", "Lucida Grande");
user_pref("intl.accept_languages",
"en,de,fr,da,nl,fi,it,ja,ko,no,pt,sv,zh-cn,zh-tw");
user_pref("intl.charset.detector", "universal_charset_detector");
user_pref("network.cookie.prefsMigrated", true);
-----

Second go:
Because I don't like serif fonts on a webpage (for me they are harder to read),
I started with applying my usual settings to this new profile. I set the default
proportional font to Lucida Grande 16pt.
In the advanced settings I changed the settings for serif, sans-serif, cursive
and fantasy to Lucida Grande as well.
After closing the preferences panel and closing Camino the file prefs.js looked
like this:

-----
# Mozilla User Preferences

user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "");
user_pref("browser.startup.page", 1);
user_pref("browser.startup_page_override.version", "0.9a1");
user_pref("font.default.x-western", "sans-serif");
user_pref("font.name.cursive.x-western", "Lucida Grande");
user_pref("font.name.fantasy.x-western", "Lucida Grande");
user_pref("font.name.sans-serif.x-western", "Lucida Grande");
user_pref("font.name.serif.x-western", "Lucida Grande");
user_pref("intl.accept_languages",
"en,de,fr,da,nl,fi,it,ja,ko,no,pt,sv,zh-cn,zh-tw");
user_pref("intl.charset.detector", "universal_charset_detector");
user_pref("network.cookie.prefsMigrated", true);
-----

So user_pref("font.size.variable.x-western", 16); was never written?

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

(In reply to comment #2)

> So user_pref("font.size.variable.x-western", 16); was never written?

16pt *is* the default for proportional fonts; I just checked.  When the user
preference is the same as the application default, no user_pref() line is written.

Is 16pt still showing up in the Font tab of the Appearance prefpane (after
relaunching Camino after changing all of your fonts to Lucida Grande)?

Comment 4

[Jasper]

Please update, if not done I will close thisbug.

Comment 5

[mandarax]

(In reply to comment #3)
Sorry for the delay, I've been offline for a while

> Is 16pt still showing up in the Font tab of the Appearance prefpane (after
> relaunching Camino after changing all of your fonts to Lucida Grande)?
>
I put away my profile and launched Camino (now 2005070308 (v0.9a1+)) anew.
Went to Preferences->Appearance->Fonts.
Changed Times 16pt to Lucida Grande 16pt.
Went to Advanced.
Changed Sans-serif to Lucida Grande
Changed Cursive to Lucida Grande
Changed Fantasy to Lucida Grande
Set the default font to Sans-serif
Closed the Preference panel.
Quit Camino.
Launched Camino again.
Went to Preferences->Appearance->Fonts.
Proportional (Sans-serif) shows Lucida Grande, 16pt.

prefs.js looks like this:
---
# Mozilla User Preferences

/* Do not edit this file.
 *
 * If you make changes to this file while the application is running,
 * the changes will be overwritten when the application exits.
 *
 * To make a manual change to preferences, you can visit the URL about:config
 * For more information, see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#prefs
 */

user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.mozilla.org/projects/camino/homepage.html");
user_pref("browser.startup.page", 1);
user_pref("font.default.x-western", "sans-serif");
user_pref("font.name.cursive.x-western", "Lucida Grande");
user_pref("font.name.fantasy.x-western", "Lucida Grande");
user_pref("font.name.sans-serif.x-western", "Lucida Grande");
user_pref("font.name.serif.x-western", "Lucida Grande");
user_pref("intl.accept_languages", "en,de,fr,da,nl,fi,it,ja,ko,no,pt,sv,zh-cn,zh-tw");
user_pref("intl.charset.detector", "universal_charset_detector");
user_pref("network.cookie.prefsMigrated", true);
---

Comment 6

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This looks to me like it's working now as expected (as I noted in comment 3, the
font size line won't be written unless it differs from the default, which is
16pt in this case).  

So closing WFM based on the results in comment 5; if the problem reappears,
reopen this bug.