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Bug 358962 - Design pattern: overriding the default font
Design pattern: overriding the default font
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: HIG Maintainers
HIG Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-10-02 10:54 UTC by Joachim Noreiko
Modified: 2020-12-04 18:19 UTC
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Attachments
screenshots showing prefs dialogs of different apps (45.65 KB, image/png)
2006-10-02 10:55 UTC, Joachim Noreiko 		Details

Description Joachim Noreiko 2006-10-02 10:54:19 UTC 
Quite a few applications allow the user to either use the default font (as specified in the Font preferences tool) or choose their own.
Every instance of this is currently slightly different.

Attaching a screenshot of the apps that currently do this: gedit, gnome-terminal, meld, xchat-gnome.
Comment 1 Joachim Noreiko 2006-10-02 10:55:13 UTC 
Created attachment 73839 [details]
screenshots showing prefs dialogs of different apps
Comment 2 Joachim Noreiko 2006-10-22 10:36:40 UTC 
Yelp does this too, with a check box: 'Use system fonts'.
Comment 3 Allan Day 2014-09-25 16:57:16 UTC 
While this might be desirable for a small number of particular applications, I don't think it's something we want to recommend generally. The vast majority of apps should use the system defaults.