Default config values

[HeyMyian]

The defaullt novelWriter font on Windows is Arial, which looks unfortunately rather dated. Are you open to changing the default font to Segoe UI? The default UI font size in Windows is 9pt. Segoe UI is also appropriate for the editor in 12pt; alternatively I'd suggest a serif font like Cambria 12pt, or possibly also a larger font size than 12pt. These fonts ship natively with Win 11.

For line height I'd suggest a value of 1.15 -- eyes need some space.

Linux uses (at least on my machine) Noto Sans 9pt everywhere, a font which I think is appropriate. Although I suppose the font size in the editor could be bumped up to 12pt -- need input on this in regard to what might look pleasing - maybe I'm blind when it comes to font size. 👓

I don't know the situation on Macs.

Current Windows default Arial 10pt and 12pt editor:

Proposed Segoe UI 9pt and Cambria 12pt editor:

With line heigth 1.15:

[vkbo]

On Linux, the default font is taken from the desktop environment, so it depends entirely on what distro + desktop you're using. I prefer to keep it default as this works fairly well on most distros. It can also do this for Windows, but the default Windows font is horrible, so I set it to a more generic font. I'm happy to change that. Feel free to play around with it. It's all in the Config class, and you should be able to find and modify it easy enough without having to learn the PyQt details. If you can find a good default combo, feel free to make a PR on it. The relevant code is here:

https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/blob/9a9a05cd7eb4eca55a80137db8166d0c5c95a9c0/novelwriter/config.py#L544-L593

[vkbo]

Nah, that's fine since you're the one doing the work. You can reference the discussion number for context though. It helps me when writing the change log.

[HeyMyian]

I double-checked with the defaults of a couple of other popular writing software and landed on "Segoe UI" 9pt for UI and 12pt for the editor. The line height I set to 1.15 which goes well with 12pt in the editor.

Is this okay to spring a more spacious line-height on updating users?

[HeyMyian]

On a sidenote, where exactly are the values for Linux taken? Default novelWriter on my KDE neon is "Noto Sans" 9pt for both UI and editor. But 9pt is not in my Plasma settings: ?

[vkbo]

It is the Qt library that extracts the default value from the system, so I don't know exactly where it collects the info. But sure, feel free to change the default on Windows at least. But make sure it defaults to something that's available by default.

Changing the default line height is probably fine too.

You should have access to check out the repo directly and push branches and create PRs. Just do it from the release branch. I plan to make the 26.2 release this weekend.

[HeyMyian]

You should have access to check out the repo directly and push branches and create PRs. Just do it from the release branch. I plan to make the 26.2 release this weekend.

Ah sorry, did not see that. I had the branch in my fork already anyway.

Linking the discussion to the PR: #2998