Bug 465589

Summary: Kdialog text is incorrect for all notifications
Product: [Applications] kdialog Reporter: Cedric Martens <cedricmartens98>
Component: generalAssignee: Brad Hards <bradh>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: nicolas.fella
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 22.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: From triggering "Hello World" (see steps to reproduce)

Description Cedric Martens 2023-02-11 16:06:30 UTC
Created attachment 156155 [details]
From triggering "Hello World" (see steps to reproduce)

SUMMARY

The notifications are written in an alternate text. It almost looks like a caesar cypher.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open terminal
2. notify-send 'Hello World'
kdialog --passivepopup 'text' 5
3. Observe the notification (see attachment)

OBSERVED RESULT
The notification has unreadable text

EXPECTED RESULT
I expected to see "Hello World"

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
6.1.7-arch1-1
KDE Plasma Version: 
plasmashell 5.26.5
KDE Frameworks Version:  5.102.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I updated my system (pacman -Syu) I couple days ago and since then every KDE notification that I get (telegram, firefox, etc) is unreadable.
Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2023-02-11 16:34:39 UTC
Pleas reboot and see if the problem persists
Comment 2 Cedric Martens 2023-02-11 16:36:39 UTC
(In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #1)
> Pleas reboot and see if the problem persists

Rebooting fixed the issue. Could I know why you thought this would fix it?
Comment 3 Nicolas Fella 2023-02-11 16:39:37 UTC
The update updated some kind of package that is relevant for font rendering (could be either of freetype, fontconfig, harfbuzz; not sure) which is known to cause problems for running applications. See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465216