
If there are two things in this apartment that I don't like, that would first be the dog upstairs which barks at 5 AM almost every morning, and the fact that UPS almost never deliver things on our door. They never bother to check if we are in. The SuSE people were very kind to send us the Professional version of
SuSE 8.1, but unfortunately, I received it 10 days later after it arrived in the apartment's complex. But now we got it here, we gave it a spin for almost a week, and here is what we think about it.
I wonder if YAST2 *is* using the "correct" fonts, except that it is using the root user's font seclections (since YAST2 runs as root) instead of the regular user's font seclections. It would be like starting KWord as root and only having access to root's fonts (if the user has extra fonts installed).
Changing root's font config to something very distinct (such as Corvisa) would make it obvious if that is what's happening. I agree that hard-coding a font serves no real purpose. Like Eugenia said, if you change one of your UI fonts and click apply and things go weird, it's very obvious how to fix it ...