Bug 150522

Summary: "DejaVu Sans Condensed" font missing: KDE vs FontConfig problem?
Product: [I don't know] kde Reporter: Thibaut Cousin <kde>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: andresbajotierra, bluedzins, mboquien, mensch, rakuco
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Thibaut Cousin 2007-10-05 23:32:33 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

I met the problem when upgrading from KDE 3.5.7 in OpenSUSE 10.2 to the same KDE in OpenSUSE 10.3. But it *seems* to be related to KDE and not distribution-specific, so I'm reporting it here. I hope it'll be useful.

I've been using the "DejaVu Sans" fonts for a long time now, the "DejaVu Sans Condensed" font to be precise. Now, in the KDE font picker, the "DejaVu Sans" font is available, but not the Condensed one, even though it is installed. I can access it through Gimp, for example.

I found an analysis of the problem in the Gentoo forums:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-566403.html

The only surprising thing is that I didn't have the problem with OpenSUSE 10.2 (same Qt, same KDE). Maybe because X.org was older and FontConfig wasn't yet using "preferred family".
Comment 1 Médéric Boquien 2008-11-08 23:12:17 UTC 
Hello,

Can you still reproduce the bug with the latest KDE 4 release?

Thanks.
Comment 2 Maciej Pilichowski 2008-11-09 08:51:19 UTC 
KDE4.1.3. Still happens.
Comment 3 Dario Andres 2008-12-25 19:10:23 UTC 
This bug on KDE4 is due a QT4 bug not interpreting all the font styles : http://trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=143304
Comment 4 Marc de Bruijn 2009-02-03 11:03:15 UTC 
It's still present in 4.2 as well. But seeing as the bug has the label "Some future release" on the Qt bugtracker I don't think it will be fixed soon.

As a workaround I set the fonts manually in various config files (~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals, ~/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc and ~/.qt/qtrc).
Comment 5 Dario Andres 2009-02-15 23:51:52 UTC 
*** Bug 184421 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Raphael Kubo da Costa 2009-11-08 02:12:11 UTC 
New bug tracker URL: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-370

Unfortunately it seems to have been closed as "Out of scope", but I don't know what on Earth they mean by that...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 93574 ***