[PyQt] Standard font in PyQt applications (Eric included)

[Danny Pansters]

On Wednesday 13 February 2008 13:28:21 Sibylle Koczian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using PyQt 4.3.3, Qt 4.3.3, Eric 4.0.4(r1711), sip 4.7.3, QScintilla
> 2.1, Python 2.5.1 on Gentoo Linux, with KDE 3.5.8 as my Desktop manager.
> After one of the last Gentoo updates the font in Eric and in all my PyQt
> applications suddenly changed to something very small and quite ugly.
> Regarding Eric: it's not the font used for the source code - that didn't
> change and would be easily reset. It's the font for menus, buttons and the
> like.
>
> I don't much want to set a font explicitly in every application, and until
> this upgrade it was quite nice. What can have happened? Which information
> would be useful?
>
> No change of fonts in other applications, including KDE itself.
>
> Regards,
> Sibylle

I think you'd want to run qtconfig, not the qt3 version, but the qt4 version. 
On FreeBSD it's called qtconfig-qt4. For gentoo, look at your qt4's ebuilds 
to see under what name it gets installed. Then you can set fonts for all qt4 
apps.

HTH,

Dan