Hi guys,
Including a standard font has obvious benefits for testing labelling etc, but 
I'm wondering if the benefits of using it for the gui aren't wishful thinking.

I think it is essential to allow the user to be able to control the font size 
(preferably by obeying the system font settings), as some screens are at least 
twice the DPI of other screens, and some people need larger fonts due to eye 
problems (personally, I usually find applications that specify their font 
offensive because it is too _big_, and typically they also either force blurry 
antialiased rendering, or a font which looks awful with antialiasing and 
cleartype disabled).

If someone was using a larger font than the "standard", would you say, "sorry, 
that's not a bug, use the standard font"?
Surely it is better to focus on accessibility, making a gui that can cope with 
different font settings?
Or am I missing something?  Would you design the gui to make sure it works with 
the standard font at multiple sizes?

Note: unlike other QT applications, at least on Windows QGIS currently ignores 
the system font size (and there is no qtconfig available on Windows)... I would 
consider this to be a bug.

Regards,
Alister
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