fonts used in the VCS commit dialog

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Wednesday January 20 2016 13:23:00 Aleix Pol wrote:

> >>It requires a monospace font.
> >
> > Why? The commit message editor doesn't use one as far as I know?
> 
> Yes, it uses monospace:
> http://i.imgur.com/q6Fz21B.png

Heh, "proof" that a good monospaced font doesn't scream TYPEWRITER ... I'm using Monaco and that's indeed what the editor uses.

> > Define nowadays please? There *is* a hidden way to configure which fonts are used in OS X applications, but even without that one should never see Courier as the default monospaced font.
> 
> In my Qt 5.6 branch:
> $ git grep kCTFontUserFixedPitchFontType
> src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/mac/qcoretextfontdatabase.mm:
> return kCTFontUserFixedPitchFontType;

Same under 5.5.1 . Guess I'll just have to see what font I'm getting actually.

R.