Default font helvetica?
Brought to you by:
xvadim
Menu
▾
▴
#7 Default font helvetica?
Is there any particular reason why all programs force "Helvetica" as a default font? In all programs, there's a line
a.setFont(QFont("helvetica", 12));
at the beginning of main.cpp. This looks extremely ugly (at least on my systems), and doesn't fit at all into the font/theme settings that I have configured for Qt. So, why not simply comment out/delete this line, and let the user have whatever font he/she configured as default font for Qt apps? Just curious. :-)
Historically, Helvetica was available on nearly all unix-like operating systems. It was basically the standin replacement for Arial.
It may not look nearly so pretty today when compared with the fonts now available, but it worked.
This is not a bug. The fact that the maintainer has not responded by now or closed this bug probably mean that yet another IceWM project has been abandoned. Please close this bug.