Comment 2 for bug 621198

It should be made sure that the font preferences work in every application/framework and that every application honors the user's settings.

Nothing is more annoying than changing some rendering preference in Gnome's appearance-properties and having to repeat that step in Qt/KDE, Firefox, etc. Currently it seems that Java ignores these settings completely, depending on the specific theme used.

This has improved in the past, but is far from working.