Summary: | Font previewing in kfontview and Konqueror is broken in current 3.5 branch | ||
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Product: | kcontrol | Reporter: | Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero> |
Component: | kcmfontinst | Assignee: | Craig Drummond <craig> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
2006-03-21 02:29:20 UTC
Which font? Any particular one, or all of them? Which font type? Was the font installed? Or is this viewing a non-installed font? Craig. Apparently all non-installed fonts (tried good old X bitmap fonts and TTF fonts). Going to fonts:/System and previewing from there works, going to the directory where the actual font files reside (/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF in my case) and previewing the same fonts from there doesn't. Hmmm.... My Xft is 2.1.7, and fontconfig 2.3.2. Which OS is this with? Is it with a released version of ArLinux that I can download, and experiment with? Everything works with my library versions, so there must be something strange going on with the newer versions. Yes, this is with Ark Linux 2006.1-rc1 (http://arklinux.osuosl.org/2006.1-rc1/iso/arklinux-2006.1-rc1.iso). OK. Thanks. I've downloaded the ISO and will have a play at the weekend. I can confirm that this is the case on ArkLinux, having installed this under QEmu. Under KUbuntu Dapper (which uses fontconfig 2.3.2, libXft 2.1.8.2, and freetype 2.1.10) the font preview works. So the only difference would appear to be the fontconfig version. Is 2.3.94 not a beta release for 2.4? According to the fontconfig website 2.3.2 is the latest stable release. Perhaps you should report this issue to the fontconfig developers as well? KFontView, etc, use FcConfigAppFontAddFile to add any non fonts:// URLs to FontConfig's list of fonts. This would appear to be broken with 2.3.94 However, I will have a play and see if I can resolve the problem. OK. Well, as I said KUbuntu Dapper has similar versions apart from fontconfig. So, I've downloaded fontconfig-2.3.94, and compiled. And, kfontview works perfectly. How does Ark compile fontconfig, Xft, and freetype? Do you use any non-standard options? I don't understand why its not working on Ark, but works on KUbuntu. After unsuccessfully trying to get Ark to work on my laptop, I'm back to QEmu. FontConfig 2.3.95 has just recently been release, so I've compile and installed that on Ark using: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc make make install ..and low and behold, kfontview now works! Looks like it might have been an error in FontConfig 2.3.94. Can you please try upgrading to 2.3.95 and let me know if it works OK for you now? Thanks, works after the fontconfig update |