In Qt 4, the default font for unrecognized font families would
be MS Shell Dlg 2, which is an alias for the default UI font on
the system. However, QFont::defaultFamily() had not been updated
to match this and would return MS Sans Serif instead, which was
the default UI font on Windows 9x. This is a raster font and not
really suitable for modern UIs.
In Qt 5, the problem with defaultFamily() was fixed, but Arial would
be returned as the default instead.
Enter change afd6313755 which tried
to revert the change to defaultFamily() and return MS Sans Serif
again. However, since it changed the actual default family and not
just the one returned by the function, this broke several tests
which depended on having a scalable default font.
This change sets the default family to MS Shell Dlg 2 like in Qt 4.
The fact that defaultFamily() now reports the actual default is
regarded as a bug fix, so we will not change this. Fixes some
XFAILs in qtdeclarative.
[ChangeLog][Windows] Set default fallback font to MS Shell Dlg 2
instead of Arial.
Task-number: QTBUG-39961
Change-Id: Ib08dfc7f2c00475d54d565bb933d1d2f8a3a3d90
Reviewed-by: Andy Shaw <andy.shaw@digia.com>
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