[g-a-devel]Re: [PATCH] Make list view update when defaults change

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Calum Benson <calum benson sun com> writes: 
> If Bill hadn't just gone home a few minutes ago, he'd probably point out
> that 508 requires everything on the desktop to track the user's One True
> Theme-- so if we do maintain a different font setting for desktop icons
> (and I can see why we'd want to), we probably need a "just use the
> current default gtk font at all times" option for it as well.  You can
> argue with Bill about whether it should be the default or not :)
> 

The "desktop font" setting is a special case, because it's configured
in the Fonts dialog, 5 pixels away from the "application font"
setting. That is, the desktop font _is_ one of the system fonts, so
"use system font" doesn't make any sense. Alex just pointed out to me
that we should probably have a "Monospace/Terminal font" option in the
fonts dialog too, because with "use system font" checked right now
gnome-terminal ends up with a really sucky font; it'd be better if
"use system font" in gnome-terminal meant "use system _monospace_
font"

Havoc