Bug 245664

Summary:	~/.fonts.conf creates every time I try to change fonts settings and systemsettings can't work without access to this file.
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Anton S. Lobashev <soulthreads>
Component:	kcm_fonts	Assignee:	rik
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	a.chidlow, aacid, aspotashev, daniel, jckeerthan, rdieter, simonandric5
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description Anton S. Lobashev 2010-07-24 18:05:51 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.5) 
OS:                Linux

All my fonts configuration like AA, hinting, etc. are stored in /etc/fonts/, there is no .fonts.conf file in my home directory and «System Settings» is used as parameter of «Use anti-aliasing» but when I want to change only my fonts (not even AA parameters) with systemsettings, it creates this file with settings different with system's.

If i set 000 access to .fonts.conf to avoid writing wrong configuration and open «Appearence», systemsettings thinks long and then crashes without any message.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
systemsettings should really use system configuration, not its own.

This bug also reproducable at Debian unstable with KDE 4.4.5.

Comment 1 a.chidlow 2010-08-01 08:19:55 UTC

I can confirm this is happening for me as well, on Arch Linux running KDE 4.4.
Simply going into System Settings -> Appearance overwrites ~/.fonts.conf, even if I don't change anything at all.
Additionally, if ~/.fonts.conf is owned by root, with permissions set to 444, it gets replaced by one owned by me.

Comment 2 crafty.ua 2010-11-02 14:41:16 UTC

Still happening on Gentoo with KDE 4.5.2

Comment 3 Alexander Slonovsky 2010-11-02 16:00:43 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 4 Daniel Eklöf 2011-10-02 11:35:28 UTC

FYI, there's a patch posted in bug 105797 that fixes the issue for me.

Comment 5 Christoph Feck 2012-04-20 10:45:44 UTC

*** Bug 298474 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Albert Astals Cid 2015-09-26 10:48:19 UTC

This doesn't seem to be happening to me using Plasma 5, could you try to reproduce it there?

Comment 7 Anton S. Lobashev 2015-09-26 16:45:47 UTC

Not reproducible here as well. Closing as fixed.