Bug 430210

Summary: Font previews do not show up on Wayland
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] kio-extras Reporter: Patrick Silva <bugseforuns>
Component: Thumbnails and previewsAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: descartavel1, dolphin-bugs-null, elvis.angelaccio, hsantanna, martin.tlustos, maxpatera, nate, philipp.reichmuth, qydwhotmail
Priority: NOR Keywords: wayland-only
Version First Reported In: 21.12.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Patrick Silva 2020-12-10 11:24:15 UTC 
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. start Wayland session
2. open Dolphin
3. make sure font preview is enabled in "Previews" tab of Dolphin settings
and "Show previews" feature of Dolphin is enabled
4. activate editable location bar by pressing ctrl+l, type "fonts:/", press enter, open "System" folder

OBSERVED RESULT
no font preview

EXPECTED RESULT
font previewer should work on Wayland

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.77.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Comment 1 Patrick Silva 2022-01-19 13:43:59 UTC 
*** Bug 448755 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Martin Tlustos 2022-02-11 08:30:12 UTC 
Also kfontview can't open font files under wayland, probably for the same reasons
Comment 3 Patrick Silva 2022-02-11 10:10:37 UTC 
(In reply to Martin Tlustos from comment #2)
> Also kfontview can't open font files under wayland, probably for the same
> reasons

reported as bug 439470
Comment 4 phrxmd 2022-05-13 07:20:58 UTC 
I can still reproduce this on Plasma 5.24.5 on OpenSUSE TW.
Comment 6 Patrick Silva 2023-11-20 13:07:09 UTC 
Fixed. :)

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.245.0
Qt Version: 6.6.0
Graphics Platform: Wayland