375984 - "Allow messages to use other fonts" checkbox is in the wrong place

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Rod Whiteley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (20070326)

The UI makes you think "Allow messages to use other fonts" is set per language group, but in reality there is only one pref: browser.display.use_document_fonts

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Choose Tools - Options - Display - Formatting - Fonts... to open the Fonts & Encodings dialog
Actual Results:  
The checkbox "Allow messages to use other fonts" is inside the groupbox for language groups.

Expected Results:  
The checkbox should be outside the groupbox (perhaps just below it).

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Attachment: Get groovy v.1

A separate groupbox is probably too much: that tends to mean that the only connection between the groups is that they live on the same pane, not that one affects how the other is applied. Borrowing Firefox's visible separator ought to be enough, though it looks better to me with a thin separator above for space, rather than Fx's full separator.

I thought about borrowing Fx's explicit "Allow __ to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above" string, too, but I'm not sure it's really needed.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Attachment: Obligatory screenshot

Comment 3

[Rod Whiteley]

That proposal shows the checkbox as somewhat separate but still within the scope of the "Fonts for" choice, and therefore still misleading.  It does not fix this bug.

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

mail/components/preferences/fonts.xul: 1.11