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Bug 270025 - Evolution Composer not picking up Proportional Display Font Pref
Evolution Composer not picking up Proportional Display Font Pref
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: GtkHtml
Classification: Other
Component: Editing
3.8.x
Other All
: Normal normal
: Future
Assigned To: gtkhtml-maintainers
gtkhtml-maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-11-30 00:53 UTC by Rich Renomeron
Modified: 2017-02-09 13:35 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Rich Renomeron 2004-11-30 00:53:03 UTC 
Please fill in this template when reporting a bug, unless you know what you
are doing.
Description of Problem:
In Evolution 2.0.2, the composer uses the default "Application Font" for
proportional HTML text, even if the proportional font preference for
"Message Fonts" is set differently.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Go to Tools->Settings->Mail Preferences, under "Message Fonts", uncheck
"Use the same font as other applications", choose a serif font for the
"Standard font".
2. Compose a new message.


Actual Results:
Proportional font in message area is standard GNOME widget font (usually
sans-serif).

Expected Results:
Proportional font in message area is serif font selected under "Steps to
reproduce."

How often does this happen? 
Always

Additional Information
This behavior does not occur in Evolution 1.4.6 (or any 1.x release, as far
as I recall).
Comment 1 André Klapper 2005-03-29 19:46:42 UTC 
rich, could you test this again with 2.2?
Comment 2 André Klapper 2005-03-29 19:49:11 UTC 
is this the same as bug 271627?
Comment 3 Radek Doulik 2005-03-31 17:41:57 UTC 
still happens in 2.2.x
Comment 4 Subodh Soni 2005-05-27 06:56:47 UTC 
I am able to reproduce this bug in evolution-2.2.2 with the following versions
of gtkhtml:

gtkhtml2-3.6.2.0.200505251324-0.snap.novell.0.1
libgtkhtml-2.6.1-2.1
Comment 5 André Klapper 2006-03-04 23:13:56 UTC 
moving ancient 2.2 milestone to ancient 2.4 milestone. at least.
Comment 6 André Klapper 2006-05-19 00:04:27 UTC 
removing old target milestones
Comment 7 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 01:03:10 UTC 
Bumping version to a stable release.
Comment 8 A. Syukri Abdollah 2015-02-11 07:05:03 UTC 
Bug still valid in evolution-3.10.4 with gtkhtml-4.6.6 (in Ubuntu 14.04)
Minor change to steps to reproduce:
In step 1, settings is called instead from "Edit->Preferences->Mail Preferences"

Font used is the one specified in dconf org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name.
If dconf setting is edited, currently open composer is not affected, while newly opened composers will reflect the dconf setting (not evolution setting).

The plain text editor honors evolution setting.
Comment 9 André Klapper 2017-02-09 13:35:26 UTC 
GtkHtml is not under active development anymore. 
Evolution (its main consumer) switched to a WebKit backend a while ago. 
It is currently unlikely that there will be any further GtkHtml development.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping (bug 778387) to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.