In the back-art resource package, I plan on including the Vera fonts,
and I've decided (at least for now :) to recommend, in most cases, that
they be used as the default fonts.
Currently, the standard fonts all have explicitly specified default
values, so to switch all fonts you need to change 11 defaults despite
the fact that only three different fonts are used. Thus, I'd like to
change the behavior here so that most fonts fall back on the system font
or system bold font instead of Helvetica. The table in NSFont.m would
change to:
<list>
<item>NSBoldFont Helvetica-Bold (System bold
font)</item>
<item>NSControlContentFont System font</item>
<item>NSFont Helvetica (System Font)</item>
<item>NSLabelFont System font</item>
<item>NSMenuFont System font</item>
<item>NSMessageFont System font</item>
<item>NSPaletteFont System bold font</item>
<item>NSTitleBarFont System bold font</item>
<item>NSToolTipsFont System font</item>
<item>NSUserFixedPitchFont Courier</item>
<item>NSUserFont System font</item>
</list>
This way, switching to using the Vera fonts (or the MS webfonts or any
other set of fonts) would only require three defaults changes:
defaults write NSFont BitstreamVeraSans-Roman
defaults write NSBoldFont BitstreamVeraSans-Bold
defaults write NSUsedFixedPitchFont BitstreamVeraSansMono-Roman