Issue 22792 - OO should default to system UI font when avalible
Summary: OO should default to system UI font when avalible
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: ui
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: PC All
: P3 Trivial with 1 vote (vote)
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Reported: 2003-11-24 10:40 UTC by sforbes
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:33 UTC (History)
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Description sforbes 2003-11-24 10:40:19 UTC 
This is a spin off of issue #10347

As the fonts that ship with OO are rathere limited, there are cases (esp. for
non-roman languages) that the UI font used is a bad one, leading to ugly or even
incorrect display of items (tooltips, text in forms etc).

Althugh the user can many times work around this by setting OO ui font to system
UI font in the prefrences, it is better that we just default to that setting
where it is avalible.
Comment 1 stefan.baltzer 2003-11-28 15:26:03 UTC 
SBA: Please note that this brings the risk of using fonts that don't
have the glyphs the respective Office language needs. 

Example: A Hebrew Office on an English Windows system might be the
first instace to show that the system font has ugly Hebrew glyphs.

Reassigned to Bettina.
Comment 2 sforbes 2004-06-21 15:20:30 UTC 
adding dina as cc
Comment 3 ralphie 2004-07-07 19:26:01 UTC 
A dupe or near-dupe of #11226,#13670,#29242 as well of at least
one already closed (INVALID) issue. 

I really don't think the (IMHO rather constructed) example of using a Hebrew OO
on a English Windows should make the user experience bad for the vast majority
of users.

After all, that's what preferences are for: Catering for stuff that
is not satisfied by defaults.

BTW I think Accessibility might not be the best place for this option
that makes sense for 95% or more of the userbase (after all, who wants
not to use the system default menu font in menus?)

I hope you are reconsidering this.

/ralph
Comment 4 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:50:20 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".
Comment 5 huntpacbabors 2010-11-10 23:41:10 UTC 
Created attachment 73847