Bug 133850

Summary: Usability issue with Kopete's msn chat "formatting -> font" menu
Product: [Unmaintained] kopete Reporter: Patrick Trettenbrein <patrick.trettenbrein>
Component: Chat WindowAssignee: Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: echidnaman, zeiglerr
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Patrick Trettenbrein 2006-09-10 12:42:10 UTC 
Version:           0.12.2 (using KDE 3.5.4 Level "a" , unofficial build of SUSE )
Compiler:          Target: x86_64-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.13-8-default

There's an big usability issue in Kopete's msn chat "formatting -> font" menu. I'm not sure if this also apperars in icq chat. Anyway when I have an MSN-chat-window openened in Kopete there is a menu entry called "formatting" (pelase note that I'm using German localization, so the menu entries' titles are translated and may be not the same as in the original English localization). This "formatting" menu has an submenu called "font". When you move your mouse on this submenu another one opens up which doesn't provide the possiblity to select every installed font due to the fact that the monitor runs out of space. This menu is a huge usability issue. It is totally un-usable! Please see the attached screenshot for details of what I'm talking about.

I'm not an usability expert, but such menus are a shame for KDE, aren't they?
Comment 1 Patrick Trettenbrein 2006-09-10 12:44:37 UTC 
Created attachment 17689 [details]
Screenshot of the bug

This screenshot shows what I'm talking about.
Comment 2 Philip Rodrigues 2006-10-21 00:01:39 UTC 
*** Bug 136023 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Jonathan Thomas 2008-08-14 02:55:23 UTC 
The font dialog in KDE 4.1 seems much better.
Comment 4 Jonathan Thomas 2008-12-08 23:00:43 UTC 
Kopete in KDE4 uses a normal font-setting dialog, marking as fixed.