It’s one of the unhelpful settings that the design team requested to be removed back in 2012. [1] Toggling it doesn’t even have a visible effect under Windows nowadays. We already use system’s current font (and never used StarOffice’s Andale Sans UI) and have fallback lists. [1]: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Options/Global
This can possibly be made into an EasyHack
Here's a starting code pointer: http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/cui/uiconfig/ui/optviewpage.ui#431 I'm gonna give it a try.
See https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/13311/1
Julien Nabet committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=324de04a408a77656a473cbfd2cc1ce77664b0c0 Resolves fdo#87016 Kill "Use system font for user interface" for good It will be available in 4.5.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
This bug fix is mentioned in the release notes of the coming LibreOffice 5.0 (see release notes https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.0). Therefore it would be wonderful if this feature really worked well, otherwise it should not be mentioned in the release notes. In the notes it reads: The obsolete, StarOffice-inherited option “Use system font for user interface” was removed. LibreOffice will always use the system’s font to display its user interface elements. tdf#87016 Thanks to: Julien Nabet and Caolán McNamara (Red Hat).
Mike: could you give precisions about the pb instead of sending this kind of message in different bugtrackers?
@Julien: I thought that awareness of the fact that the bug will be mentioned in the release notes should be helpful as there is no visible connection between these two elements. As a result in the past some bugs were listed as fixed while they were not or new questions / discussions on that bug showed up exactly at release time when i.e. journalists read the release notes and then mentioned the questionable situation. I have only send this information to this bugzilla instance.
(In reply to Mike §chinagl from comment #7) "Use system font for user interface" doesn't appear anymore, I tested it. About "LibreOffice will always use the system’s font to display its user interface elements", I must recognize I tested this only on Linux. So do you mean it fails in 1 or both of these envs? If not, could you explain simply what's the pb?
(In reply to Mike §chinagl from comment #7) > As a result in the past some bugs were listed as fixed while they were not > or new questions / discussions on that bug showed up exactly at release time > when i.e. journalists read the release notes and then mentioned the > questionable situation. I have only send this information to this bugzilla > instance. No idea what you’re talking about. Please stop spamming bug reports with mentions to the wiki release notes.
(In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #9) > No idea what you’re talking about. Please stop spamming bug reports with > mentions to the wiki release notes. Please consider my clarifying statement: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86138#c13