Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 144617
Firefox menu sizes inconsistency in KDE
Last modified: 2008-08-02 19:40:34 EDT
Description of problem: It seems that the menu sizes of typical KDE applications using QT is different from that of Firefox. This presents a visual inconsistency for the desktop as a whole Originally seen in Fedora core 1, I believe this still would exist in Fedora core 3. Since Firefox is the default browser for FC3 now it would be important that KDE users find themselves with a consistent interface on the whole Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fireup firefox 2. open konqueror in KDE 3. Notice the difference in menu sizes Actual results: menu sizes are different Expected results: should be consistent and changing menu sizes in KDE should be also change it for firefox Additional info: This inconsistency is not exhibited in Gnome. I suspect some good integration bits with KDE would be necessary for changes in the control panel to be reflected on firefox to have a native look and feel. possibly a discussion in fd.o for standardising in this would be useful. atleast the defaults can be setup to be coherent
Created attachment 109540 [details] Firefox in KDE exhibiting differences in menu sizes between Konqueror as a native KDE application and Firefox
Created attachment 109541 [details] Firefox in Gnome where the menu sizes are consistent in contrast to KDE
Kludge step to fix: 1) Run the gnome control center and set the fonts you want for gnome based applications. The actual font setting only needs to be done once. 2) Then at each login (or when you start KDE from the command line with startx) fire up the gnome-control-center app. In a bit you'll see it reset its displayed font to match your previous selection. 3) Select fonts if necessary to make it recognize the font you previously selected. 4) Exit without making any changes Firefox and Thunderbird will then have the right settings. I'm sure there is a better way to accomplish this - certainly the gnome/KDE integration should be handling this by itself - but that works for me.
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
Reporter, could you confirm please, that this bug still could be reproduced with the updated release of the supported version of Fedora (FC5, FC6, or F7)? If yes, please, reopen this bug with additional information how it is possible to reproduce this bug. In meantime, I have to close this bug as CANTFIX, because it is reported against not longer supported distribution. Thanks in advance.