OpenOffice.org widget fonts

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 07:34:35PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > What desktop environment are you using?  OOo pulls the UI font from the 
> > desktop environment, in the GNOME case from GTK, and in the KDE case from 
> > QT.  You should try changing the system-wide application font to see if 
> > that helps.  But if you could check a copule things:
> 
> I get the same problem btw - Gnome uses a sensible font but OpenOffice
> chooses some ghastly fixed font for the widgets. In my case this is locale
> dependant and the bug was put down to font issues and limits in Oo's font
> capabilities compared with Gnome/KDE.

Ok, this is a known bug then, the OOo KDE code needs to do fontconfig 
substitution on the font that KDE returns using LANG as the constraint.  

Dan