Re: Do you care if user changes the SystemFont?

FROM : Andrew Farmer
DATE : Mon Dec 20 22:50:14 2004

On 20 Dec 2004, at 06:35, Stephan Burlot wrote:
> A general design question:
>
> I've carefully designed my windows in IB, and a user complains that
> the text displayed doesn't fit. It appears he has changed the default
> fonts used by the system.
>
> How do you handle such cases? Knowing text can always be bigger than
> what you expect, even if you leave some additional space?
>
> Do you care, or just tell the user to stick to the defaults?


Tell the user to not change the system font. It isn't exposed in System
Preferences, _ergo_ you shouldn't bother dealing with it.