[Qt-interest] Picking default fonts

[Arnold Krille]

On Monday 22 March 2010 20:18:10 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> 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?

Hehe, I would love a special "no freaking ms-fonts" name:-)

Arnold
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