| Summary: | system settings / application appearace / fonts - DEFAULT button - resets the font information WRONG | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] systemsettings | Reporter: | Simon Andric <simonandric5> |
| Component: | kcm_fonts | Assignee: | Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | major | CC: | aacid, ggrabler, lueck, m8r-k8qott, rdieter, simonandric5, unassigned-bugs |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | triaged |
| Version: | 4.11.60 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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look at he fonts in firefox :(
look at the fonts in firefox #2 :( |
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Description
Simon Andric
2013-11-01 01:38:12 UTC
Created attachment 83260 [details]
look at he fonts in firefox :(
Created attachment 83261 [details]
look at the fonts in firefox #2 :(
another problem which i noticed: Ubuntu Medium font is not rendered properly--instead of having a "medium boldness" it is same as regular excpet "sider" more space between characters... so trying ot use "medium" intead of "regular" foesnt make them better..just even more different...and if i use "bold" they become too fat and again unreadble...but in a different way... thank you nice day simon hello! i also saw this behavriour by just VISITING the systemsettings / application appearance / fonts ...and not even changing anything, not even clicking apply or anything... even i f i just close systemsettings with pressing the X button...the fonts (or at least rendering) is changed... i see immediately in my widgets and in firefox and in k menu,... strange... :( symon I get exactly the same thing: just visit system settings / application appearance / fonts and the fonts all change to be spindly and angular - basically not very nice. I am using a live (USB stick) version of Kubuntu 14.04 and the bug happens from a completely clean state. (I want to change to Kubuntu/KDE, but this is a deal-breaker for me if it can't be fixed.) It looks like the problem is that the file ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf is created, even without any "Apply" or "OK" being clicked in the GUI (system settings/ application appearance / Fonts). Furthermore, this file is made to include a wrong value for "hintstyle", namely "hintmedium". Deleting this file restores the correct system fonts, but if you visit the fontsettings again then the file is recreated and the problem comes back. A slightly more permanent workaround is to replace "hintmedium" in this file with "hintnone" as this doesn't get overwritten. However, this is obviously a bodge and not a proper fix, and it might not play well if you actually try to modify the font settings from the GUI. Other people have referred to parts of this problem, but I can't find a bug report that is exactly the same as this one, so I don't think this is an exact duplicate. These are similar/related: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105797 (from 2005!) https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245664 (~/.fonts.conf is the old version of ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf) and it is also mentioned at the end of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304317 and in the forum post https://www.kubuntuforums.net/archive/index.php/t-55941.html > file is made to include a wrong value for "hintstyle"
But you can use System Settings to change that value, right? I do not understand why people insist on deleting the configuration file (and expecting the defaults to be how they like them), instead of changing the configuration to their needs.
(In reply to comment #7) > > file is made to include a wrong value for "hintstyle" > > But you can use System Settings to change that value, right? I do not > understand why people insist on deleting the configuration file (and > expecting the defaults to be how they like them), instead of changing the > configuration to their needs. You can get at the hintstyle setting via System Settings -> Application Appearance -> Fonts -> Configure (anti-aliasing). However, this Configure option is greyed out to start with, because "System Settings" is selected from the anti-aliasing drop-down menu to start with. To enable the configure option you have to select "Enabled" from the drop-down. So yes, you can change the option from the GUI, but it wasn't obvious to me (a first time user). It was visiting the "System Settings" GUI that caused the problem in the first place, so I don't think it's obvious that visiting this again would be the way to fix it, though you are right that it can be done and it would be a cleaner workaround to the original problem. To be clear, we are not complaining that the default is not to our personal taste. I don't expect defaults always to be how I like them, though as it happens the genuine default font setting looks absolutely fine to me, and is (presumably) "hintstyle=none". What happens is that you do something that should have no effect (look at your font settings) and the hintstyle changes under your feat to medium, for no obvious reason and with no obvious way to change it back (for one thing, because you don't know that it's the hintstyle changing that has caused the problem). Can't reproduce in Plasma 5.2. Simon, Alex, can you reproduce in Plasma? I meant Plasma >= 5.2, sorry. Dear Bug Submitter, This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with no change in 30 days, the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging If you have already provided the requested information, please set the bug status as REPORTED so that the KDE team knows that the bug is ready to be confirmed. Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! Dear Bug Submitter, This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! |