[Qt-interest] Picking default fonts

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 03/22/2010 04:30 PM, Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Monday 22 March 2010 15:13:26 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 03/21/2010 11:49 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>> Em Domingo 21. Março 2010, às 21.45.16, Nikos Chantziaras escreveu:
>>>> On Gnome and KDE, there are default "general" and "fixed width" fonts.
>>>> That way, all applications that need to display fixed-width fonts (like
>>>> a text editor) always use the font the user set globally.  Is there any
>>>> way I can get those fonts from within a Qt application?
>>>>  [...]
>>> Use these generic font names:
>>> 	Sans
>>> 	Serif
>>> 	Monospace
>> Thanks.  This works.  Is this something that Qt takes care of and makes
>> it work on all platforms, or this a Linux-only thingy?
>
> If Qt is only half as good in "lightening your burden" it does this on all
> platforms supported. Together with picking the right colours from the palette,
> selecting the right style, following the toolbar preferences, following the
> right-handed/left-handed mouse settings and selecting the users language for
> translations (if they exist for the app).
>
> PS: Yes, Qt is lightening your burden in that it does all the named things for
> you:-)

While we're at it, are there any other "special" font names I should be 
aware of, or are the above three the complete list of them?