575580 - Use Segoe UI semi-bold font for Firefox menu in Aero theme

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; sk; rv:1.9.3a6pre) Gecko/20100628 Minefield/3.7a6pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; sk; rv:1.9.3a6pre) Gecko/20100628 Minefield/3.7a6pre

Three reasons why:
1. Mockups
2. Fits system
3. Looks sexi :)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

Just a note: Segoe UI semibold isn't included in Vista, so installer will have to install both Firefox and font.

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

We're probably not allowed to distribute Segoe UI. On Win7 it should just be used automatically if it's set to be the system font, I think.

Comment 3

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

Well, you can ask MS for permission.(In reply to comment #2)
> We're probably not allowed to distribute Segoe UI.
Well, at least you can try to ask MS for permission.
> On Win7 it should just be used automatically if it's set to be the system font, I think.
Not sure what do you mean by that.

Comment 4

[Tan Wei Lin Jason [:Ryuji]]

Because light and semibold versions of Segoe UI fonts are bundled with Windows 7. 

Windows Vista also contains some form of Segoe UI font. 

http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?a=871
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segoe_UI#cite_note-3

Comment 5

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

Yes, but not semibold varation.

Comment 6

[Tan Wei Lin Jason [:Ryuji]]

Last I checked Win 7 include the semi-bold varation.

Comment 7

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

I was talking about Vista.

Comment 8

[Josh Tumath]

The UX guidelines state that Segoe UI should be used for GUIs. They do not mention the semibold weight variant.

Comment 9

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

I just realized that WLE installs Segoe UI to XP. Can be done the same for FX installer as well?

Comment 10

[Steve Scott (pxbugz)]

Attachment: Changes app button font to sem-bold on aero

Change app button font preference to semi-bold then bold for Aero.

Comment 11

[Steve Scott (pxbugz)]

Attachment: Screen showing attachment 471136 chnages

Original on top, patch on bottom.

Comment 12

[imradyurrad]

If this change only affects the app button, shouldn't the bug name be changed accordingly?

Comment 13

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

Meta bug perhaps?

Comment 14

[Tan Wei Lin Jason [:Ryuji]]

I think he meant that you should rename it to "Use Segoe UI font in Firefox Menu of the Firefox in Windows Vista/7" or something among that line.

Comment 15

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This bug didn't make a review request of anyone specific which means it's probably not going anywhere.  Perhaps we can start with a UI r= or wontfix from Shorlander?

Comment 16

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

The screenshot isn't really useful, as it suffers from bug 578620.

Comment 17

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Closing this old bug/patch because it's not clear to me if it's relevant now. See also comment 2.

IIRC, the current plan for the theme is to remove the "Firefox" button, so there's little benefit in fixing this now. Especially if it requires complexity to deal with unavailable fonts.

Feel free to reopen if still relevant, and attach a new patch with specific reviewer.