From 68216a0f7f5c669bfe55895c85fbbc2a1b3c6c05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:30:53 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/gui2/widgets.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/widgets.py b/src/calibre/gui2/widgets.py
index f3badd91c9..6d238c84d3 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/widgets.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/widgets.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ from PyQt4.Qt import (QIcon, QFont, QLabel, QListWidget, QAction,
                         QMenu, QStringListModel, QCompleter, QStringList,
                         QTimer, QRect, QFontDatabase, QGraphicsView)
 
+from calibre.constants import iswindows
 from calibre.gui2 import (NONE, error_dialog, pixmap_to_data, gprefs,
         warning_dialog)
 from calibre.gui2.filename_pattern_ui import Ui_Form
@@ -365,7 +366,7 @@ class FontFamilyModel(QAbstractListModel): # {{{
         self.families = list(qt_families.intersection(set(self.families)))
         self.families.sort()
         self.families[:0] = [_('None')]
-        self.font = QFont('sansserif')
+        self.font = QFont('verdana' if iswindows else 'sansserif')
 
     def rowCount(self, *args):
         return len(self.families)