98763 - Mail toolbar does not display current size of font.

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[S A Jarrett-Sprague]

When I write text in composer I can change font size using a+ and a-, But I cant
tell what font size the text is. This means I don't know what size the text will
be for thr recipient, and whether the email will look good to them.

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

-->varada

Comment 2

[S A Jarrett-Sprague]

Correction. There is no way to tell from the toolbar - I just stumbled into a
menu which does tell me font size in vague units of regular, larger etc not font
size e.g. 10-point. I would have thought that if the email composer has a box
with font details (variable, courier, arial) you should for consistency have a
pull-down menu on the toolbar with font size (10 point, 12 point etc.) rather
than the a+ and a- buttons.

Comment 3

[Sheela Ravindran]

confirming enhancement request 

varada is this a dup of bug 38981?

Comment 4

[varada]

no I dont think it is a dup.

Comment 5

[Olga]

It is valid on all platforms. I changed OS: 'Linux' to 'All'.

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

taking all of varada's bugs.

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 8

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 11

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Should be good to have in Thunderbird 3.1

Comment 12

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

This is very annoying when send mail to other client as outlook because in many case the font size that I send is different from font size that is received.

Comment 13

[Michael A. Pasek]

Many bugs requesting the ability to SET a specific font size (not just make it bigger or smaller) have been DUP'd to this bug -- but the description of this bug only requests the ability to DISPLAY the font size.  Should the "Summary" be updated to "Ability to see and change font size in Formatting Bar" ?