Unable to change fonts on Windows XP

[nicolaasjan]

Supermium Version 121.0.6167.81 Hotfix 32bit, on 32bit XPSP3.

I want to change the default fonts to Noto Sans for better readability, but I'm greeted with greyed out options...:

[win32ss]

This appears to be a limitation of GDI as implemented in Chromium. But I quickly checked version 49 and it does not have this issue. I'll be looking into this for sure.

[Vangelis66]

... Looks like a similar issue as that one 😜 (well, the exact OS there was XP SP2 x64); the developer, weolar, seems to have come up with a solution, but since that project is still closed source, not much help to be found there, I suppose 😞 ...

FWIW, I can reproduce under Vista SP2 x86 OS, too, when enabling #force-gdi (which is, sadly, needed on that OS to properly display webfonts/glyphs, etc.).

[JoachimHenze]

The issue does persist in Supermium Supermium 122.0.6261.85 on Windows XPSP3:

[nyanpasu64]

As an additional bug, on XP Supermium picks a default "monospace" font that resolves to Times New Roman rather than an actual monospace font. This is caused because Supermium GDI is hard-coded to resolve monospace to Consolas, which is not present on XP; if I copy Consolas from a newer computer (eg. Windows 7) into XP's Control Panel -> Fonts, then monospace shows Consolas instead.

• EDIT: From reading the source (IDS_FIXED_FONT_FAMILY_ALT_WIN -> PrefsTabHelper::RegisterProfilePrefs()), it's possible that Consolas is only incorrectly selected when XP is configured with ClearType enabled. I verified that Standard font smoothing (and presumably off) pick Courier New instead.

I haven't looked into the code that normally allows for font customization (and doesn't work under GDI rendering).

[JoachimHenze]

"Unable to change fonts on Windows XP" bug/limitation does still happen in latest "Supermium 122.0.6261.152 (R4)" 32bit.