growing tired of being asked about how to get at the font used in widgets, here's a cute little accessor that provides the answer for now and gives us a way to support font settings in the future much in the way qwidget itself does.

svn path=/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/plasma/; revision=712158

widgets/widget.cpp

@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@
 #include <cmath>
 #include <limits>
 
-#include <QtCore/QList>
+#include <QApplication>
+#include <QList>
 #include <QPainter>
 #include <QPixmapCache>
 #include <QStyleOptionGraphicsItem>
@@ -238,6 +239,18 @@ QSizeF Widget::size() const
 {
     return geometry().size();
 }
+
+QFont Widget::font() const
+{
+    return QApplication::font();
+}
+
+/*
+void Widget::setFont(const QFront& font)
+{
+}
+*/
+
 QRectF Widget::boundingRect() const
 {
     return QRectF(QPointF(0,0),geometry().size()); 

widgets/widget.h

@@ -169,6 +169,20 @@ public:
      */
     QSizeF size() const;
 
+    /**
+     * @return the font currently set for this widget
+     **/
+    QFont font() const;
+
+    /**
+     * Set the font for this widget
+     *
+     * @param font the new font
+     **
+TODO: implement once we decide how to handle the font system
+     void setFont(const QFont& font);
+    */
+
     /**
      * Reimplemented from QGraphicsItem
      * @return the bounding rectangle for this Plasma::Widget