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Bug 683695 - Use the same font in the mail vertical view
Use the same font in the mail vertical view
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Shell
3.4.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Evolution Shell Maintainers Team
Evolution QA team
: 692572 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-09-10 04:12 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2015-11-04 16:54 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

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2012-09-10 04:12 UTC, Jean-François Fortin Tam 		Details

Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-09-10 04:12:19 UTC 
Created attachment 223874 [details]
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I set my desktop to use the default GNOME font, "Cantarell 11", and noticed the following. In the attached screenshot, you can see the "@", "i" and "l" letters revealing that the font being used for the first line (sender and timestamp) is not the same being used for the text below it (the message subject), which seems to be using a monospace font.
Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2012-09-10 04:24:30 UTC 
That's intentional, we've always used a combination of variable and fixed-width fonts for vertical view.

If you'd prefer to use all variable-width fonts, there's a gsettings key in the "org.gnome.evolution.mail" schema named "vertical-view-fonts" which you can toggle.
Comment 2 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-09-10 19:56:12 UTC 
I don't get it. fixed-width for plaintext message bodies sure... but why would you want to mix fonts in a list view like that?
Comment 3 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-09-20 16:20:05 UTC 
Reopening til I get a good rationale for it :)
Comment 4 junk 2013-05-16 10:45:25 UTC 
can we move the gettings key in to a preference please?
Comment 5 meles 2015-03-16 20:36:49 UTC 
+1 That ugly font problem was actually one of the reasons why I moved from evolution to geary, because so many different fonts on one view feel just awefull.
Comment 6 Milan Crha 2015-08-12 14:11:54 UTC 
Let's get rid of the option. The view looks awkward by default, which is not good.

Created commit ed15839 in evo master (3.17.90+)
Comment 7 Milan Crha 2015-11-04 16:54:58 UTC 
*** Bug 692572 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***