488829 - The fonts used to display the eMail's header are so big and bold that they steal a reasonable amount of the screen and they cannot be resized to usable values

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Peter Dyballa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/528.16 (KHTML, like Gecko, Safari/528.16) OmniWeb/v622.8.0.111107
Build Identifier: Font size cannot be reduced in Version 2.0.0.21 (20090302)

The size of the fonts used to display the eMail's headers is 15 or 16 pt and much too large to be useful. And they're even in bold! They just steal screen real estate, that their use does not seem useful. And there is no means to reduce their size and make them normal or even light.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch Thunderbrd
2.Load an eMail.
3.Wonder about their size.
Actual Results:  
I saw much to big glyphs. I can read them when I am a few m away from my PowerBook. But then I could not use my PowerBook (arms and fingers too short, regular text in other windows unreadable).

Expected Results:  
11 or 12 pt fonts of regular or light shape. Well, headers are just eMail headers! There isn't so much information in them that need to be shaped like a headline in newspaper.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Checked Display | Formatting | Fonts and fixed the sizes?

Comment 2

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

The new headers in the coming Thunderbird 3 are much lighter in font style (not bold) and size (more normal sizing).  I've also filed bug 520819 about improving the coloring to be more inline with Mac themes.