Re: [SLE] Menu font for Firefox

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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:25:04 -0500

On Monday 21 November 2005 04:47 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> On Monday 21 November 2005 9:35 am, Felix Miata wrote:
> > Four choices:
> > 1-Be happy/live with the Firefox UI defaults
> > 2-Install a theme with the smaller or larger fonts you want
> > 3-Install only the Gnome components required to control fonts,
> > gnome-control-center and its deps
> > 4-Customize with CSS
>
> Re (3): I think you have to install gnome-settings-daemon also and
> activate it on each session startup.
>
Ummm...don't know about that. I am 99% sure I do not have it installed.
As per #3, I have only the absolutely necessary files,
gnome-control-center and whatever it required. I also do not have
the .xsessionrc file although there is a template there for it.

gnome-control-center does set font sizes for you in the windows of the
apps, gimp, gqview, firefox, etc. The really annoying thing is the
teeny tiny fonts in the menus and sub-menus (dialogs) They should be
able to be set in a css file.FYI here is an excerpt from a two year old
e-mail with a mozilla developer back when I was running 8.2 and had the
very same problem. It was unresolved but may give some of you who have
much more knowledge than I something to go on.
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On Tuesday 19 August 2003 18:23, you wrote:
> Bob Stia wrote:
> > Here is my userChrome.css file:
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> >----------- menubutton, menulist, menu, submenu, menuitem, #urlbar {
> >  font-family: arial !important;
> >  font-style: normal !important;

....................<snip rest of userchrome>...............
> >
> >> It's possible that someone
> >>has added some new type of menu which isn't one of those, in which
> >>case I should add it to the example.  But that's the list I use
> >>myself, and I haven't noticed any submenus that aren't following
> >> the font I specify.  Which submenus in particular aren't following
> >> it?
> >
> > OK, In Navigator, File. Open file, the listings of files.  Save page
> > as, the listings of files,
>
> Wait, those are all dialogs, aren't they?  Not submenus?  I don't see
> those as submenus at all ... for instance, File has Open File... as a
> single item, and that brings up a file selection dialog (which is
> different on each platform and won't generally follow mozilla
> preferences, I suspect).  We are talking about the regular mozilla
> app, not firebird, right?  (We must be, though, since you mentioned
> Composer.)  I wonder if it's different on different platforms?  (I'm
> on linux.)  I just downloaded a current build from yesterday, in case
> there were recent UI changes, but that's not the difference.

Regular Mozilla - Suse 8.2.  Don't know as how they would be different
on different systems. These "dialogs" should be common to the internal
workings of Mozilla. I downloaded the newest mozilla since our last
messages. Some things have been improved. Others have not. I have
included a small screenshot of EDIT - PREFERENCES. As you can see the
left hand side is OK. The dialog to make your choices have those tiny
fonts. Other dialogs seem to be better except for the tiny fonts in the
selection buttons eg: Cancel, OK, Apply, etc.

...................<snip a bunch of stuff>....................
>
> It might be time file a bug on this, though (in bugzilla.mozilla.org,
> please cc me on it) because it's sounding like this is probably (a) a
> bug which needs to be fixed for proper accessibility (it's important
> that our fonts can be made big enough to be visible!) and (b) may be
> in an area where I can't easily fix it (perhaps on a platform I don't
> use). We probably need to get someone involved who knows more about
> XUL and what changes might have happened recently in the menu system
> which might have caused this.
>
>       ...Akkana

Akkana,

Just wanted to tell you that I attempted to file a "bug" report with
bugzilla.  Very complicated.  Don't think I was successful.  As stated
above, I waited for the next release and installed it.Some  improvement
but .there are still instances that have those tiny fonts in what you
call "dialogs".  Thanks for trying to help, that much is appreciated.

Bob S.
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So you see, this has been around a long time. Back then I tried editing
my css files to no avail.

My latest quest has been trying to modify my dpi settings, in hopes that
will resolve the tiny font problem, with which Felix is guiding me.
(Thanks Felix) Not there yet though.

Bob S.

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