Bug 191908

Summary:	Quoted Text font size setting is broken
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Tristan Miller <psychonaut>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	frank
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	Screenshot showing bug Patch for kdelibs to fix the bug

Description Tristan Miller 2009-05-07 14:44:53 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

In Configure KMail->Appearance->Fonts, the user can select a font style to apply to Quoted Text at the first, second, and third levels.  When the "Apply to:" drop-down box is set to one of these options, the "Font:" and "Size:" lists are greyed out, while the "Font style:" list and the "Size:" spinner are left active. (See attached screenshot.)

This does not make sense.  Why is the "Size:" spinner active while the "Size:" list is inactive?  Either the user should be able to set the font size here, or he should not be able to.  Both widgets should be greyed out, or both widgets should be active.

I suggest that both widgets should be active.  KMail recently introduced a setting to decrease the font size of quoted text (Appearance->Message Window->Use smaller font for quoted text); however, this setting does not allow the user to specify how much the text should be reduced.  On my system, for example, enabling this option causes quoted text to be reduced so much that it's not easy to read.  Why not get rid of this checkbox and simply allow the user to select the font size for quoted text in the Fonts tab?

Comment 1 Tristan Miller 2009-05-07 14:54:50 UTC

Created attachment 33435 [details]
Screenshot showing bug

Comment 2 Frank Niethardt 2009-06-15 20:35:54 UTC

This seems to be a bug in KFontChooser::enableColumn() - there you can disable column SizeList, what is done in AppearancePage::FontsTab::slotFontSelectorChanged().

But disabling column SizeList disables just sizeListBox and not size does not disable sizeOfFont...

Comment 3 Frank Niethardt 2009-06-15 20:54:00 UTC

Created attachment 34554 [details]
Patch for kdelibs to fix the bug

Comment 4 Jaime Torres 2009-06-16 14:04:00 UTC

Please, use http://reviewboard.kde.org or follow the steps in
http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Send_Patches.
As your patch is for kdelibs, it has to be reviewed and tested before it is applied.

Comment 5 Frank Niethardt 2009-06-17 23:53:34 UTC

Ok, I sent it, it is reviewed, marked "ship it" and I commited it in svn trunk. But I have no power to mark the bug RESOLVED...

Comment 6 Thomas McGuire 2009-06-18 00:06:10 UTC

Thanks, marking as resolved.