> On March 6, 2014, 1:55 p.m., Mark Gaiser wrote:
> > How will this work with other non KDE apps (like Chrome), will they simply 
> > pickup the Oxygen font?
> > 
> > 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 :)
> 
> 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.
>     
>     This is unrelated to this patch, however.
> 
> 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.
>     
>     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.
>     
>     Note: Chrome is just a sane example here. Others would be gparted, 
> firefox, <fill in any gtk app>
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     @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.
> 
> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     @Mark: Nobody assures Chrome will be using "Sans Serif" either, this 
> patch doesn't make a difference in this regard...
> 
> Mark Gaiser wrote:
>     @Martin, @Aleix; To be clear, I'm not against this change at all. I'm 
> only against the result it will have. Sure, you need to start somewhere. In 
> this case that would be assuring that all applications follow the font 
> settings that are in kde's font settings. How one should tackle that, i don't 
> know. I guess it's possible with a local fonts.conf file.
>     
>     @Aleix not a strong argument. GUI interfaces almost always use the 
> default font settings. My exact point is that those defaults _won't_ change 
> for GTK apps with this patch.
> 
> Àlex Fiestas wrote:
>     Well supporting gtk app's is as simple as writing the configuration file 
> like or kcm-gtk-style does. If chromium is not reading that and rather using 
> their own config file (which I doubt) then it would be their bug, not ours.
>     
>     Also, imho we should ask KDE/PLasma distributions to set this settings by 
> default distro-wise.

Just to make my point clear, I'm not against this review but I think it should 
be followed by another one configuring other toolkits fonts :)


- Àlex


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On March 6, 2014, 4:36 p.m., Sebastian Kügler wrote:
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> (Updated March 6, 2014, 4:36 p.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for Plasma and Àlex Fiestas.
> 
> 
> Repository: frameworkintegration
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> Change default font settings to Oxygen font
> 
> 
> Depend on kde:oxygen-fonts being installed. oxygen-fonts installs a file 
> called OxygenFontConfig.cmake, which is used for checking the dependency is 
> available.
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   CMakeLists.txt e249554 
>   src/platformtheme/kfontsettingsdata.cpp 62990ce 
> 
> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/116633/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
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> 
> Started kate without a kdeglobals file being present, fonts are picked up 
> correctly.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sebastian Kügler
> 
>

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