Bug 85530

Summary:	Usability: Too many "font not found" dialogs and the help to get the fonts is missing
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Teemu Rytilahti <tpr>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Teemu Rytilahti 2004-07-20 05:05:40 UTC

Version:           1.3.90 (using KDE 3.2.91 (CVS >= 20040706), compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-2)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.8-rc1-love1

All this started again when something got broken somewhy in my system. When I logged in the fonts in the splashscreen looked very bad, but that's not a big problem. Well, I have script in autostart which starts Konsole with 3 tabs, just for ircing. So, now I get 19 "font '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1'not found check README.linux.console" messages when Konsole starts, and two everytime I'm changing tabs. Isn't this a bit too much?

Well, then I checked the file mentioned in the messagebox (why user has to find the location of the file and open it him/herself?), there is no mention about the fonts. So now my system is kind of broken and unusable for me as I don't know how could I fix this.

This isn't the first time this happens for me, but does this happen so rarely that no one hasn't noticed it?

Comment 1 Waldo Bastian 2004-07-20 10:40:10 UTC

Since a few days the dialog is shown at most once per konsole process.

This leaves the question of why the font isn't found and the issue of the totally unhelpful message.

Comment 2 Waldo Bastian 2004-07-20 22:12:15 UTC

The font isn't found if Xft can't find the font. In particular /etc/fonts.conf or ~/.fonts.conf should include $KDEDIR/share/fonts.

Comment 3 Kurt Hindenburg 2005-03-29 06:52:45 UTC

Obsolete in KDE 3.5