Bug 238305 - KDE default fonts not used
Summary: KDE default fonts not used
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: rekonq
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andrea Diamantini
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Reported: 2010-05-20 16:37 UTC by Jonathan Riddell
Modified: 2010-06-05 03:19 UTC (History)
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Description Jonathan Riddell 2010-05-20 16:37:26 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.4.3)
OS:                Linux

rekonq does not use KDE's default fonts by default.  It default to "Arial" and "Courier New" when my defaults
Comment 1 Jonathan Riddell 2010-05-20 16:38:04 UTC 
rekonq does not use KDE's default fonts by default.  It default to "Arial" and
"Courier New" when my defaults are "Sans Serif" and "Serif".  rekonq should trust KDE in its font choices, there is probably a good reason why they are chosen.
Comment 2 Andrea Diamantini 2010-05-24 10:51:39 UTC 
While font situation has been improved in 0.4.71, the default font decision is left to QtWebkit default fonts.
So, while rekonq uses KDE default fonts in its simple UI, it chooses QtWebkit fonts by default on pages.
Isn't this reasonable?
Comment 3 Blackpaw 2010-05-26 01:05:35 UTC 
Some correct me if I'm wrong, but I ebelive Arial, Courier New and Times New Roman are MS fonts - odds are they won't be installed on most KDE boxes.
Comment 4 markuss 2010-05-26 01:12:11 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)

> So, while rekonq uses KDE default fonts in its simple UI, it chooses QtWebkit
> fonts by default on pages.
> Isn't this reasonable?

I, too, think that Rekonq should use SC's fonts as default. QtWebKit was not primarily designed with KDE in mind which is why some of its design decisions should be changed by KDE apps.
That said, Rekonq should still offer to override SC's defined fonts (hence not remove the prefpane). After all, a monospace font on a website may have a different purpose than a monospace font in Konsole.