| Summary: | KDE resets GTK font setting to non-condensed font | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] systemsettings | Reporter: | Yann Salmon <contact+bugs+kde> |
| Component: | kcm_style | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | REOPENED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | mail, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 5.18.5 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Kubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2484#note_727715 | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Screenshot of dconf-editor | ||
Unfortunately GTK3 does not support font styles (e.g. "condensed") for user interface fonts. :( See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2484#note_727715 Created attachment 129292 [details]
Screenshot of dconf-editor
Thanks for the pointer. For future reader, although it seems they should not, the steps I described above do make it possible to use a condensed font in GTK3 apps in KDE (see dconf-editor as an example).
orly... Seems like there is a hidden method in dconf to do this. Mikhail, would it be feasible to use that here? What "hidden dconf method" are you talking about? |
SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Set KDE default font to Noto Sans Condensed. 2. See that this does not apply to GTK2 nor GTK3 apps. 3. Tweak various GTK config files to set Noto Sans Condensed as the default font well. 4. Log out and back in. OBSERVED RESULT GTK config files are reset to "Noto Sans", nont condensed. EXPECTED RESULT GTK config files are either left untouched or correctly synchronised. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0 Qt Version: 5.12.8 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For GTK2 apps, using gtk-chtheme and gtk-theme-switch2 works, but I had to go back to KDE settings GUI after using these tools and reapply the theme to overcome some residual glitches. The big problem was with GTK3 apps. Not sure which GTK3 config files actually need to be set. I did : update ~/.config/xsettingsd/xsettingsd.conf with Gtk/FontName "Noto Sans Condensed, 11" update ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini with gtk-font-name=Noto Sans Condensed, 11 in dconf, under org.gnome.desktop.interface, set font-name to 'Noto Sans Condensed, 11'. These files and dconf settings are reset to "Noto Sans, 11" at login. KDE refers to the font as "Noto Sans" with the "Condensed" attribute while in GTK one needs to have "Noto Sans Condensed" as the font name ; maybe the setting transfer is buggy. Or maybe this has nothing to do with my wished font being Condensed. Anyway, I had to disable the Plasma GTKd background service to make my GTK font setting stay.