Bug 232508

Summary:	hinting settings in gnome-font-properties have no effect on Firefox
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Mike Fabian <mfabian>
Component:	Firefox	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	clint, federico, opublic
Version:	unspecified
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Linux
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Description Mike Fabian 2007-01-08 11:43:00 UTC

Start Firefox, gedit, and "gnome-font-properties".

Changing the font size of the "Application font" has an immediate
effect on both Firefox and gedit (although Firefox did sometimes
crash on my system, see bug #232209).

But changing the "Font Rendering" settings

    [ ] Monochrome        [ ] Best shapes
    [ ] Best contrast     [*] Subpixel smoothing (LCDs)

has an effect only on gedit but not on Firefox.

Why?

Firefox is a GTK2 application, therefore I guess this is a bug in
Firefox, isnt' it?

Comment 1 Mike Fabian 2007-01-08 17:29:22 UTC

The same problem exists for Thunderbird, see bug #232466 comment #14.

Comment 2 Mike Fabian 2007-01-08 17:30:07 UTC

gimp, like gedit, is affected by the "Font Rendering" settings in
gnome-font-properties.

Comment 3 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2007-01-09 08:47:45 UTC

Does it apply when Firefox is restarted?

Comment 4 Mike Fabian 2007-01-09 09:24:52 UTC

No.

Apparently the only way to the the hint settings apply to Firefox
is to edit the config files, i.e. ~/.fonts.conf.

Comment 5 Forgotten User CRPsQFwJ3b 2007-05-14 16:48:22 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 274361 ***