In the General Prefs Window, there is no way to lock the Font properties. This is a requirement for eClient. Eddyk is aware of this issue, filing bug on his behalf.

QA over to me, adding sarah to Cc.

Well this might not be an issue, just checked the 4.x config editor and the only thing that was lockable in the font pref area was to specify to use browser default_fonts or document-specified fonts. So any pref that deals with the menubox items probably won't have to be locked. But how the "Allow Documents to use other fonts", should that be lockable? Please resolve as invalid you feel this area shouldn't be locked.

meant to say... How about the "Allow Documents to use other fonts" checkbox, should that be lockable?

Based on the wording, I assume that "Allow Documents to use other fonts" is the equivalent opposite of "Use my fonts, overriding page-specified fonts". Thus 4x parity says we should lock it. Personally I think this is a bad idea because folks with deteriorating eyesight might want to be able to enlarge their fonts. But we all know how those IT/IS departments like to torture their users, um I mean control their corporate desktops.

The intent of 4xp is to enable functionality in 6 that exists in 4, not to discourage the implementation of functionality in 6 that didn't exist in 4. Currently the only requirement I know about locking prefs is that every pref should be lockable. If you disagree with this statement, please let me know. :-)

[s]r=ben@netscape.com might be nice if you put some spacing around your assignments: foo=bar becomes foo = bar (which appears to be the style of the surrounding code)

what ben said :) r=bnesse.

checked in

The three prefs needed to lock the ui in this panel are: browser.display.screen_resolution browser.display.use_document_fonts browser.display.languageList Note that the last pref, languageList is a pref that indicates to the FE to lock the menu pulldowns. It doesn't really lock all the font prefs in the back-end. Those wishing to be more thorough must lock the font prefs if they want to ensure everything is locked. I'm not going to list them here since the prefnames are dynamic, based on the actual fonts available and their names.

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Prefs used to lockdown panel.... lockPref("browser.display.use_document_fonts", 1); lockPref("browser.display.screen_resolution", 96); lockPref("browser.display.languageList",false);