What's this supposed to be doing exactly? I was assuming that it would set a default font for a lable that can be overridden by the label's setFont() method.
I can see it's being used in Label, but as far as I can tell, only with respect to the label's TextEditor component. Shouldn't the label constructor be calling getLookAndFeel().getLabelFont() to initialize the private font member?
It's there so that you can override the font that's set with Label::setFont if you want to. Yes, it'd be better if it just returned a font and if Label::setFont didn't exist, but is done this way for backwards-compatibility.
Actually, I should have looked at the implementation of LookAndFeel as that makes it obvious what's going on. I have my own LAF which was altering the behaviour.
