Comment 3 for bug 161058

Tobias, what do you mean by cross checking with KDE? Qt's interaction with fontconfig and freetype is entirely different, and I don't really really think relevant to this discussion. I don't use KDE.

Mingming, thanks for the interesting comment. If you apply this change, and you _don't_ specify a setting for a font in .fonts.conf, then does it get the setting in gnome-appearance-properties?

The behaviour should be that gnome-appearance-properties specifies the default, and then users can use .fonts.conf to override this setting for particular fonts.