Bug 183174

Summary:	Plasma renders fonts with overlapping characters
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	Nikos Chantziaras <realnc>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra, bl.bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	screenshot Screenshot of bug in non-plasma area

Description Nikos Chantziaras 2009-02-04 14:00:37 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
Compiler:          GCC 4.3.3 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

All versions of KDE 4 (including latest 4.2.0) on my system (Gentoo Linux
64-bit) seem to have this bug when rendering fonts in Plasma areas:

  http://i40.tinypic.com/15hhdud.png

(Note the rendering bug in the words "Free" and "Year".) At first I thought this is a bug with the font I use "DejaVu Sans", but it turned out other fonts inhibit the same behavior after a while.

This *only* happens in Plasma areas (Plasmoids and panel for example.) Normal widgets (buttons, text areas, etc.) aren't affected.

Comment 1 Nikos Chantziaras 2009-02-04 14:03:20 UTC

Created attachment 30949 [details]
screenshot

I'm also attaching a screenshot since tinypic is not reliable for long-term storage.

Comment 2 Nikos Chantziaras 2009-02-05 11:02:34 UTC

Created attachment 30977 [details]
Screenshot of bug in non-plasma area

I just found a similarly wrongly rendered font that is not in Plasma.  Attaching screenshot.  Note how the "Vu" is running together and how the tooltip text doesn't fit in the tooltip box.

Comment 3 Dario Andres 2009-04-26 00:10:08 UTC

I guess this should be fixed now with an updated KDE+Qt. Are you still experiencing it ? Thanks

Comment 4 Nikos Chantziaras 2009-04-26 15:44:47 UTC

It got fixed with Qt 4.5.0.