Brackets: Custom font is ignored

[thany]

Prerequisites

• [x] Can you reproduce the problem with Debug -> Reload Without Extensions?
• [x] Did you perform a cursory search to see if your bug or enhancement is already reported?
• [x] Did you read the Troubleshooting guide?

Description

A custom font set in View->Themes is ignored.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Brackets
2. View->Themes
3. Set any other font. In my case, Fira Code, so: Fira Code, FiraCode, 'SourceCodePro-Medium', ＭＳ ゴシック, 'MS Gothic', monospace

Expected behavior:
Custom font should be displayed in the editor.

Actual behavior:
Custom font is set, but only once, after committing the setting. After zooming in/out, after a restart, or a reload, the default font is displayed again.

Versions

Brackets 1.9
Windows 10

This is a regression from 1.8, where setting a custom font worked just fine.

[zmyjs]

‘I’ve been through the same situation!

[prasadmudedla]

same situation... tried changing the defaultPreferneces.json.... Still no luck...

[clementi]

I'm seeing this also. Windows 7 and Windows 10.

[guillecro]

This issue is already posted here,
https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/13205

Its not working even in Ubuntu (in my case Ubuntu 16.04 LTS x64)

[thany]

That appears to be a different issue, as it also reports the problem in 1.8.
This particular case is a regression from 1.8, meaning the feature worked fine in 1.8, but it broke as of 1.9.

[gxnie]

I have modified the brackets.min.css.

[thany]

Can this please be fixed with a maintenance update?

It happens too often that we need to wait 3 months or longer, for an issue to get solved in the next release. And any new release may introduce other breaking bugs, causing us to have to wait even longer.

[guillecro]

Can this please be fixed with a maintenance update?

I +1 this comment. Its such annoying bug..

[jpdupont]

+1

[swmitra]

@thany We are working on this issue and hopefully have a fix by next week. Once the fix is in, we will trigger a pre-release which would be available under Brackets GitHub releases.

[vahid-sanati]

I have this bug too.
When I change the font in preferences, the font changes. But after restarting brackets it shows with default font.

[swmitra]

Closing this as fixed by #13279 and available as part of 1.10 pre-release 1 build https://github.com/adobe/brackets/releases/tag/release-1.10-prerelease-1

[thany]

I just noticed 1.9 is still up as the latest release, even though this bug is still in there, supposedly. Why aren't you releasing this 1.10-prerelease as a maintenance update to 1.9? You can call it 1.9.1 or something.