[Qgis-developer] Default typeface to package with app

[Alister Hood]

Hi guys,
Including a standard font has obvious benefits for testing labelling etc, but I'm wondering if the benefits of using it for the gui aren't wishful thinking.

I think it is essential to allow the user to be able to control the font size (preferably by obeying the system font settings), as some screens are at least twice the DPI of other screens, and some people need larger fonts due to eye problems (personally, I usually find applications that specify their font offensive because it is too _big_, and typically they also either force blurry antialiased rendering, or a font which looks awful with antialiasing and cleartype disabled).

If someone was using a larger font than the "standard", would you say, "sorry, that's not a bug, use the standard font"?
Surely it is better to focus on accessibility, making a gui that can cope with different font settings?
Or am I missing something?  Would you design the gui to make sure it works with the standard font at multiple sizes?

Note: unlike other QT applications, at least on Windows QGIS currently ignores the system font size (and there is no qtconfig available on Windows)... I would consider this to be a bug.

Regards,
Alister