[Qt-interest] Picking default fonts

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 03/22/2010 09:28 PM, Arnold Krille wrote:
> 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:-)

Well, here I would love something like "Cursive" or "Fantasy".  Right 
now, I simply pick the first font I find that contains "Chancery" in its 
family() name (to match fonts like "URW Chancery L", "Apple Chancery").

I guess what we're asking here for is CSS-like generic font names 
(serif, sans-serif, monospace, cursive and fantasy):

   http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/fonts