Can the default font for the news plasmoid be changed? Btw as it uses qt-webkit, can the default fonts for qt-webkit be set somewhere? Since the upgrade to qt(-webkit) 4.8.1, my news plasmoids look like so:

At least, it would be fine to be able to select a font that will be anti-aliased.

From what I can tell, this can't be changed directly. However it could be influenced by a number of factors, including the default font as set in System Settings > Application Appearance > Fonts.

I don't think it's influenced by the default KDE appearance settings, as all fonts I have selected there are being anti-aliased and other font familys.

If you are aware of some CSS, you should be able to fix this. It does require modifying your current Plasma theme however.

Find "stylesheets/news.css" (which should be somewhere like /usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/default/stylesheets/news.css) and alter it to set a better font.

Thanks, this worked

I didn't change /usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/default/stylesheets/news.css, because this would be overwritten by any update. After having had a short look at the sources, I found that the news plasmoid searches not only for this location, but for other standard config files, so I could simply create ~/.kde4/share/apps/desktoptheme/default/stylesheets/news.css according to my needs.

Works fine!

But at this point, there's another (more generic) question: the news plasmoid uses a QWebFrame to display HTML. So do other applications, like KMail for the message that is displayed when no directory is selected. Is there a way to set default fonts for the whole QWebkit framework? So that all QWebFrames, etc. will use them by default?

Seems like "Times New Roman" is actually hard-coded in QWebkit, even before the fonts set by the desktop environment.

In fact, I'm unsure if this is a QtWebKit bug or a bug in the applet itself.

I don’t think this is a bug – I rather think this is a lack of a feature: a GUI-driven possibility to set the standard fonts used by QWebkit for the whole dedsktop environment.