Bug 423117

Summary: Some text is displayed with broken kerning after app launch
Product: [Applications] Discover Reporter: Andrey Kozlovskiy <akozlovskiy119>
Component: discoverAssignee: Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <leinir>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: aleixpol, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.19.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Neon   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-49646
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Attachments: Broken kerning demonstration

Description Andrey Kozlovskiy 2020-06-17 17:43:19 UTC
Created attachment 129462 [details]
Broken kerning demonstration

Some text labels are displayed with broken hinting immediately after launching Discover app, for example "Fetching updates..." or "Be the first to write a review!", maybe some other labels too. After refreshing or hovering over a link, hinting looks good again. See attached video for example.

Discover 5.19.0 / Frameworks 5.71.0 / Qt 5.14.2
Comment 1 Andrey Kozlovskiy 2020-06-17 17:47:05 UTC
Maybe irrelevant, but there are some places with broken hinting in Plasma Settings too, for example in User Feedback tab (privacy policy link), Thunderbolt settings ("Thunderbolt system is not available" text), Window Rules settings ("No rules for specific windows are currently set" text).
Comment 2 Andrey Kozlovskiy 2020-06-17 20:38:05 UTC
Sorry, I made a mistake. It seems the right term is kerning.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-06-19 17:44:39 UTC
This was a known issue in Qt which has been fixed as of Qt 5.15.1. See https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-49646