59892 - Menu items should use same font as their parent menubutton

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Themes, defect, P4)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Build:

To reproduce, open any of the following in Navigator:
* the Back button menu
* the Forward button menu
* the address field auto-complete menu
* the Bookmarks menu.

What you see:
* The menu items use the large system font (e.g. Charcoal 12).

What you should see:
* The menus use the same font as their parent widget.

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

To clarify, by `the Bookmarks menu' I am referring to the Bookmarks menu in the
Personal Toolbar, when it is turned on in the prefs.

Comment 2

[Adam]

This problem now occurs with the Modern theme as well.

Comment 3

[Andrew Thompson]

Someone seems to have fixed this in recent builds, and its a disaster!
While it may be acceptable for the Back/Forward menus etc, its hopeless for
things like the personal toolbar and the bookmarks button/menu on the personal
toolbar.

Not only do these previously normal looking menus now look wrong - but the font
being used doesn't have the command (clover-leaf), shift key, control key or
option key glyphs. Therefore when bug 70048 is checked in, the keyboard
shortcuts in the bookmarks menu appear as little missing character boxes []
rather than the correct symbols.

Ironically, this works right in modern!

Comment 4

[Andrew Thompson]

Filed bug 91843 on the recent regresions.

Comment 5

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

This is fixed on Classic, and is now only a problem on Modern. In Modern,
context menus have the appropriate (large) font, but Back and Forward menus and
Personal Toolbar menus do not use the appropriate (small) font.

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

interesting. i think this is still the case on mac os 9.1 --eg, i get large
Charcoal in my context menus [using 2001.10.01.03-branch comm].

however, when i bring up context menus on mac os 10.0.4 [2001.10.01.04-branch
comm], the font is the same --but in the context menu font is not bold [like the
main menu font], and i *think* even a bit smaller than the main menu font. is
what i'm seeing *this* bug, a different issue, or expected behavior?

Comment 7

[Andrew Thompson]

Hrm, I just tried this with the Classic skin in 2001100108 and I definately got a 
small font - probably Geneva, which doesn't support the keyboard accelerator 
glyphs which mpt thinks should be removed.

Sairuh - did you use Modern or Classic? 

Comment 8

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

fwiw see my bug on bad font usage in modern skin, bug 102224.

Comment 9

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

lordpixel: my 2001-10-01 19:17 comments were based on using the modern theme.

in addition, when i do use classic, i see what you see: the context menu font is
small and Geneva.

Comment 10

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Since bug 91843 was fixed, this is now a problem on both Classic and Modern.

Comment 11

[andreww]

reassigning some of my mac classic bugs so they dont fall off into 
space...

Comment 12

[Frankie]

Mozilla CFM build is dead.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=avkj4k%24ihs2%40ripley.netscape.com