[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #17892: Minimize references to fonts in the Dashboard stylesheets

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#17892: Minimize references to fonts in the Dashboard stylesheets
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 Reporter:  RanYanivHartstein  |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)       |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Administration     |    Version:
 Severity:  minor              |   Keywords:
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 The stylesheets under wp-admin/css includes several redundant references
 to the default font stack, for example:

 {{{
 #dashboard_recent_comments .comment-meta .approve {
         font-style: italic;
         font-family: Arial, "Bitstream Vera Sans", Helvetica, Verdana,
 sans-serif;
         font-size: 10px;
 }
 }}}

 These fonts are also references under global.css, for the body element and
 other elements. All these references are redundant - they make the
 stylesheets needlessly complicated, and they make it much harder to re-
 style the Dashboard with different fonts.

 The problem is much more pronounced in the RTL stylesheets - see for
 example this snippet, which repeats dozens of times in different
 selectors:

 {{{
 .widefat th {
         font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;
 }
 }}}

 The main issue for me is the difficulty in reseting these fonts to Arial
 for the Hebrew version. This would cause similar issues for anyone
 developing Dashboard themes.

 I propose we minimize these calls to the very minimum necessary - I'm not
 aware of any reason to have so many redundant references, instead of
 inheriting the styles from just one. I'll write the patch for this, I just
 wanted to present the issue first in case there actually is a good reason
 and I'm just missing it.

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