Bug 465216

Summary: Text in notifications is broken
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Waqar Ahmed <waqar.17a>
Component: NotificationsAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: kde, nicolas.fella
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.26.5   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Manjaro   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: broken notification

Description Waqar Ahmed 2023-02-03 09:47:06 UTC
Created attachment 155911 [details]
broken notification

SUMMARY

After an update, notifications on my desktop are completely unusable.

OBSERVED RESULT

Text is garbled, and for some reason trying to use rtl characters?


EXPECTED RESULT

Text should be readable and in English

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.102
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Comment 1 Waqar Ahmed 2023-02-03 09:49:10 UTC
Notifications inside the tray look fine.
Comment 2 Nicolas Fella 2023-02-05 12:58:48 UTC
Have you rebooted since the update? Looks like a fontconfig/freetype/harfbuzz/etc update that caused this
Comment 3 Waqar Ahmed 2023-02-06 06:49:00 UTC
After a reboot it works fine, yes.

Though I doubt its a fontconfig/freetype/harfbuzz issue as the rest of the system looks fine.

Perhaps a change in the way data is sent to the notification i.e., a change in the protocol? Perhaps something else
Comment 4 Nicolas Fella 2023-02-11 16:41:51 UTC
There was no change in how notifications are handled. It is 100% a font handling issue, I've seen it multiple times and not only in notifications.

Not sure whether this is something wrong in Qt or with the font libraries though