Review Request 116633: Change default font settings to Oxygen font

[Martin Gräßlin]

> On March 6, 2014, 2:55 p.m., Mark Gaiser wrote:
> > How will this work with other non KDE apps (like Chrome), will they simply pickup the Oxygen font?
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> > I'm asking because fonts are working just fine now. If i open a GTK app in KDE it shows the fonts in the same manner as a KDE app would show them. That is consistent and quite likable :)
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> Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>     They won't pick up the font. Nothing we can do about that in Plasma. Needs the distro or the Chrome developers to do it. The Oxygen Widget style for GTK could probably pick it up, though.
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>     This is unrelated to this patch, however.
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> Mark Gaiser wrote:
>     Well, if this patch gives the user a broken consistency (Chrome is being used by lots of people, including KDE folks) then i think it might be best to keep the defaults consistent and keep it at sans-serif.
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>     That would at least keep the default consistent.
>     Another approach might be (don't know if that's done already) to generate a local user font.conf which changes the default sans-serif font to whatever font is set in KDE's font settings.
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>     Note: Chrome is just a sane example here. Others would be gparted, firefox, <fill in any gtk app>

@Mark: well it's orthogonal to this change. We need to start somewhere the transition. If we block the first patch because it introduces inconsistancies, we will never be able to adress it. Thus I think it's the right approach to start with the what we have control over.


- Martin


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On March 6, 2014, 2:28 p.m., Sebastian Kügler wrote:
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> (Updated March 6, 2014, 2:28 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma and Àlex Fiestas.
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> Repository: frameworkintegration
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> Description
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> Change default font settings to Oxygen font
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> Depend on kde:oxygen-fonts being installed. oxygen-fonts installs a file called OxygenFontConfig.cmake, which is used for checking the dependency is available.
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> Diffs
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>   CMakeLists.txt e24955420515ff980f9a0a07ff84ab71ec0f032c 
>   src/platformtheme/kfontsettingsdata.cpp 62990ce45c1a175c3b57710c8a38268d08908733 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/116633/diff/
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> Testing
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> Started kate without a kdeglobals file being present, fonts are picked up correctly.
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> Thanks,
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> Sebastian Kügler
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