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Bug 330313 - Default font size is not used in new users
Default font size is not used in new users
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Preferences
git master
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
: 598831 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-02-07 21:18 UTC by Christopher Aillon
Modified: 2010-08-18 20:12 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Screenshot of default font sizes of epiphany 2.15.1 (14.13 KB, image/png)
2006-06-09 10:31 UTC, Joachim Frieben
Details
Initial epiphany 2.15.4 font sample (85.45 KB, image/png)
2006-08-01 09:18 UTC, Joachim Frieben
Details
Analog epiphany 2.15.4 font sample after opening detailed font settings (89.08 KB, image/png)
2006-08-01 09:22 UTC, Joachim Frieben
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Sample screenshot after logging into new user account (331.72 KB, image/png)
2006-12-31 15:19 UTC, Joachim Frieben
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Default detailed font settings in FC development (14.58 KB, image/png)
2006-12-31 15:34 UTC, Joachim Frieben
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Sample screenshot after the default font settings got read in (288.85 KB, image/png)
2006-12-31 15:38 UTC, Joachim Frieben
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Screenshot of epiphany 2.26.3 (245.09 KB, image/png)
2009-08-05 05:10 UTC, Joachim Frieben
Details

Description Christopher Aillon 2006-02-07 21:18:35 UTC
Upstreaming from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170155

See that bug for full details (it morphed slightly)

Description of problem:
In "epiphany-1.9.6-1", sans serif fonts are used right from the start.
However, most fonts are too small. Only after going to

  "Preferences" -> "Fonts & Style" -> "Detailed Font Settings..."

the size of the concerned fonts jumps instantaneously to the right
values. This is apparently due to the same bug that caused the use of
serif instead of sans serif fonts. See 2 attached screenshots for the
"before/after" effect.
Comment 1 Joachim Frieben 2006-06-09 10:31:49 UTC
Created attachment 67032 [details]
Screenshot of default font sizes of epiphany 2.15.1
Comment 2 Joachim Frieben 2006-06-09 10:35:20 UTC
The default settings are still wrong in current version 2.15.1. After opening
"Preferences" -> "Fonts & Style" -> "Detailed Font Settings..." for the first
time, all values equal "1" as the attached screensht shows. Setting the values
to "11", "10" and "7" allows to recover rendering in normal font sizes.
Comment 3 Joachim Frieben 2006-08-01 09:18:51 UTC
Created attachment 70015 [details]
Initial epiphany 2.15.4 font sample
Comment 4 Joachim Frieben 2006-08-01 09:22:09 UTC
Created attachment 70016 [details]
Analog epiphany 2.15.4 font sample after opening detailed font settings
Comment 5 Joachim Frieben 2006-08-01 09:23:19 UTC
Issue still present in current development version 2.15.4 as the screenshots in comment #3 and comment# demonstrate.
Comment 6 Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail) 2006-12-18 11:45:46 UTC
Is this still present?
This was also reported on Ubuntu: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/products/epiphany-browser/+bug/72109
Comment 7 Joachim Frieben 2006-12-20 10:12:49 UTC
I'm at 2.17.3 and the issue still is there. default font size settings in "Fedora Core Development" after logging into a new account are

  Minimum size:   7
  Fixed width:    12
  Variable width: 12

but instead of 12, the displayed size is rather 10. When, e.g., I change a value of 12 in the panel to 11 and back to 12, the font size immediately jumps to the correct greater value.
Comment 8 Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail) 2006-12-26 09:07:29 UTC
I don't understand your e.g.
Comment 9 Joachim Frieben 2006-12-26 10:58:21 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> I don't understand your e.g.

e.g. : for instance (exempli gratia)
Comment 10 Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail) 2006-12-26 13:09:14 UTC
I mean that I didn't understand your exempli gratia :).
Comment 11 Joachim Frieben 2006-12-31 15:19:24 UTC
Created attachment 79099 [details]
Sample screenshot after logging into new user account

This is from the current "Fedora Core" development tree. A new user account is created, and "epiphany" [2.17.4] displays a sample web page according to the screenshot. No user settings have been altered.
Comment 12 Joachim Frieben 2006-12-31 15:34:05 UTC
Created attachment 79100 [details]
Default detailed font settings in FC development

It is obvious from the screenshot that the default font sizes do not match the ones which are actually used [previous screenshot]. Only after modifying at least one value [or changing it and setting it back to the old value again], "epiphany" seems to actually use these settings. In the browser window, the font sizes suddenly jump to the values given in the settings window [next screenshot].
Comment 13 Joachim Frieben 2006-12-31 15:38:04 UTC
Created attachment 79101 [details]
Sample screenshot after the default font settings got read in

Ok, now everything is right again, The detailed font sizes used for rendering the web page actually are 7/12/12 now. This is too big for me and easily changed, but at least "wysiwyg".
Comment 14 Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail) 2006-12-31 16:37:02 UTC
Ah gotcha. :)

Thanks for your efforts!.

We'll check this.
Comment 15 Christian Persch 2007-08-27 20:45:23 UTC
There will be no more 2.18.x releases; moving bugs off of that target milestone.
Comment 16 Joachim Frieben 2008-06-22 13:27:47 UTC
Bug is still present in epiphany 2.22.2.
Comment 17 Christian Persch 2009-04-10 18:22:50 UTC
Reality check.
Comment 18 Kris Thomsen 2009-08-04 23:03:25 UTC
I don't think this is present anymore in Epiphany 2.26.3. (Fedora 11)
Comment 19 Joachim Frieben 2009-08-05 05:10:48 UTC
Created attachment 139920 [details]
Screenshot of epiphany 2.26.3

For me, the issue persists: the attached screenshot shows a page rendered using initial font sizes (12/11) on the left; the same page after setting detailed font sizes to (11/10) on the right. Note that the characters which form the header lines have become larger. When resetting sizes back to (12/11), then the discrepancy gets even more striking.
Comment 20 Joachim Frieben 2009-10-18 10:45:04 UTC
*** Bug 598831 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 21 Felix Miata 2009-10-30 17:56:26 UTC
This was filed for Gecko. Now that Webkit is used instead, this bug should be expired, and any similar behavior should have separate bug(s).
Comment 22 Joachim Frieben 2009-10-30 18:25:43 UTC
I suppose that the 2.26.x series has not been abandoned yet, and given the substantial deficiencies of epiphany-webkit, the Gecko based variant is far from obsolete.
Comment 23 Xan Lopez 2009-10-30 21:29:37 UTC
(In reply to comment #22)
> I suppose that the 2.26.x series has not been abandoned yet, and given the
> substantial deficiencies of epiphany-webkit, the Gecko based variant is far
> from obsolete.

There is in fact nobody maintaining the 2.26.x series.
Comment 24 Reinout van Schouwen 2010-08-18 20:12:55 UTC
Marking OBSOLETE.