[Interest] Qt5 and "global" configuration

René J.V. Bertin rjvbertin at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 12:18:02 CET 2014


One of the really nice things in Qt4 was that one could take the appearance parameters available for individual applications (style, default font but also the font replacement table) and set them on a system/user-wide basis via qtconfig.
>From what I understand these individual settings still exist in Qt5, but the possibility to set them globally has been removed.

Why is that, and what are the chances to get it back by popular request (or "apopular request" if it wasn't all that popular to begin with :)) ?

This is coming from someone working on Linux and OS X, and who thinks that the default "aqua" style is a mixed bag. It somehow looks outdated, and spacing tends to be much too ample (on non-Retina displays at least). Also, the system default font (Lucida Grande) is applied even if this was changed through a utility like TinkerTool, and in the point size that even OS X uses only in menus and window titlebars (13 or even 14 point). That's just too large for most UI elements (and if scaling is done right I presume that to be true on Retina displays too).

Cheers,
René



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