[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#580910: chromium-browser: Fonts default to Times New Roman, Arial, and sans; should use system font settings, or Serif, Sans, and Monospace
Jonathan Nieder
jrnieder at gmail.com
Sun Jun 27 12:54:10 UTC 2010
Hi Josh,
Josh Triplett wrote:
> Chromium's fonts default to using Times New Roman for serif, Arial for
> sans, and for some reason sans for fixed-width fonts. Ideally, Chromium
> should respect the system font settings from the user's environment
> (those set in GNOME's appearance properties, for instance). In lieu of
> that, Chromium should at least default to Serif, Sans, and Monospace.
I agree with the principle, though I suspect something more complicated
is going on.
. Under “Personal Stuff”, I have enabled the Gtk theme
. Under Under the hood → Fonts and Encoding, I see:
Font
Serif font: [ sans ] [16]
Sans-serif font: [ sans ] [16]
Fixed-width font: [ sans ] [13]
Encoding
Default encoding: [Unicode (UTF-8) ]
. If I load this sample HTML document:
<!doctype html>
<html><title>sample page</title>
<body>
<p><tt>-------</tt>
<p><tt>testing</tt>
</body>
</html>
it really does appear to be using “Monospace”.
. Now suppose I try changing “Fonts and encoding”. I change the Fixed-width
font to “Sans” (notice the capitalization!) and it changes to sans-serif.
I change it to “Monospace” and it goes back again.
Could you file one or two bugs upstream[1] requesting
- that Chromium use the Gtk standard fonts if possible
- a facility for downstream distributors to easily set the default
fonts according to distro policy
- that the upstream default fonts at least make the fixed-width font
have some fixed-width name
? I only ask because I suspect your report would make more sense than
the nonsense I could write.
Thanks.
[1] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry?template=Defect%20on%20Linux
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