Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 100413
mozilla ugly fonts after install
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:55:57 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: After a standard install of Redhat 9 / Severn, Mozilla defaults to Serif as it Proportional font. This is ugly. Sans serife as it's default would be much nicer, I always change it right after the install. New users may think the fonts in Linux are still ugly now. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Beta 1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install 2. see Actual Results: 'ugly' default font Expected Results: Very nice sans serife font Additional info:
The serif font appears to have rendering bugs in mozilla 1.4 (as provided) with underlined text (such as links, etc). If these are not rendering bugs then perhaps the default serif font should be changed to a different font?
Yup, it does that here too. Here is a screenshot where Mozilla is choosing the wrong font: http://img.osnews.com/img/4091/severn1.jpg as you can see, instead of choosing an Arial or Helvetica Sans Serif font, it chooses a Serif font and makes it bold. Other sites like Slashdot and news.com also exhibit the problem. I was able to fix the problem by going to the Prefs/Font panel of Mozilla and tell the Sans Serif drop down menu to choose sans serif fonts and not Serif ones. But obviously, this should be corrected in your default Mozilla package as well. RHL9 did not have that problem, it first appeared in Severn it seems.
It seems that other applications have the same problem (at least the same behavior you can see in OpenOffice and Epiphany).
As long as we're fixing Mozilla, what about Firebird?
These defaults are provided via fontconfig for the most part. Assuming that you don't have something odd picked on the fonts preference panel.
Is this being worked on for a default install? In Fedora TEST 3 it's still ugly with a default install.
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The font situation seems to be OK on recent Fedora and RHEL computers. So I recommend to close with CURRENT_RELEASE or so.