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Bug 714306 - messages displayed in fixed-width font
messages displayed in fixed-width font
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: geary
Classification: Other
Component: client
unspecified
Other All
: High normal
: ---
Assigned To: Geary Maintainers
Geary Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-09-04 04:40 UTC by Adam Dingle
Modified: 2018-04-13 07:44 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
message.txt (4.97 KB, text/plain)
2012-09-04 16:41 UTC, Adam Dingle
Details

Description Charles Lindsay 2013-11-21 20:26:02 UTC


---- Reported by adam@yorba.org 2012-09-04 09:40:00 -0700 ----

Original Redmine bug id: 5762
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5762
Searchable id: yorba-bug-5762
Original author: Adam Dingle
Original description:

Geary is displaying several messages from a recent mailing list conversation
in a fixed-width font, unexpectedly. I'll attach one of the messages here. It
has this header:

    
    
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"



---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2012-09-20 15:32:00 -0700 ----

### History

####

#1

Updated by Adam Dingle about 1 year ago

  * **File** message.txt added

####

#2

Updated by Andrea Corbellini about 1 year ago

Personally, I see this as a feature rather than a bug. I hate when Gmail
formats plain/text emails with a sans-serif font.

####

#3

Updated by Adam Dingle about 1 year ago

Andrea, if many users feel the way you do then we should have a preference for
this. I personally never want to read fixed-width text, unless it's program
source code. :)

####

#4

Updated by Adam Dingle about 1 year ago

  * **Target version** deleted (<strike>_0.2_</strike>)



--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:26 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 5762 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5762
Imported an attachment (id=260932)

Unknown version " in product geary. 
   Setting version to "!unspecified".
Unknown milestone "unknown in product geary. 
   Setting to default milestone for this product, "---".
Setting qa contact to the default for this product.
   This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
Resolution set on an open status.
   Dropping resolution 

Comment 1 Jim Nelson 2014-06-13 19:38:46 UTC
See bug #731630 and bug #730680 for related issues.
Comment 2 Michael Gratton 2018-04-13 00:11:32 UTC
I don't think I've ever seen this, so marking incomplete. Please re-open if you can give some directions to reproduce.