https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393748
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--- Comment #22 from Felix Miata 2008-05-28 22:11:06 MDT ---
Created an attachment (id=218766)
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screenshot proving bug not invalid
On the left is a screenshot taken with Arial & Albany both present in the font
path. On the right is the same system with X restarted after removing both
Arial & Albany from the font path. In both, KDE's font configurator has been
used to specify Liberation Sans as the CSS menu font, and it's clear in both
that the browser menu fonts used are the same as the CSS menu styled fonts in
the loaded testcase HTML page.
The problem is Firefox & Epiphany (and SeaMonkey, though it's very hard to tell
that's the case), unlike Konq, and in spite of the setting in KControl for GTK
apps to use KDE-specified fonts, are ignoring KDE's direction to use Liberation
Sans as the CSS menu/UI font. On both sides, Konq is using Liberation Sans as
specified by the KDE font controller. On the left, the Geckos are using the
first available font in the sans-serif list in /etc/fonts/suse-post-user.conf,
Albany AMT, while with the removal of Albany and Arial on the right, the next
available font in that sans-serif list is used, which is the considerably
larger Verdana (the "y" in History is the givaway that it isn't the equally
large DejaVu Sans).
Note that it's clear in the kcmshell applets in this image that the absence of
both Arial & Albany confirms the generic Sans Serif to fall back to the next in
/etc/fonts/suse-post-user.conf sans-serif list, Verdana.
I know the Pangofied FF3's Gecko version renders fonts a bit differently than
its predecessor used by SeaMonkey, and that tipping points between 1px & 2px
stem/stroke weights are involved. They account for the big difference between
SeaMonkey & Firefox, but they are separate problems for separate bugs.
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