Bug 467535

Summary: No popup with information about character when selecting "All characters" view
Product: [Applications] kfontview Reporter: Alexander Wilms <f.alexander.wilms>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.27.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/0c6a4b6e791cbcbca699936df160ef2bbce33707 Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Alexander Wilms 2023-03-18 17:54:08 UTC 
SUMMARY
When I inspect a font like EB Garamond (https://github.com/georgd/EB-Garamond) with many characters for niche use cases, like historical floral hearts, I'd like to easily find out a symbol's code point. When I select a preview of the type "Unicode Block", I get a popup with this information when I hover with the cursor over the symbol.  However, there is no popup when one select the "All Characters" preview type.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open e.g. /usr/share/fonts/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf in kfontview
2. Select "Unicode Block: Basic Latin" as preview
3. Hover over character
4. Select "All Characters" as preview
5. Hover over character

OBSERVED RESULT
In the first case, one gets a popup with information like this:

Category Letter, Uppercase
UCS-4                          U+ 41
UTF-16                        0x 41
UTF-8                          0x41
XML Decimal Entity  &#65;

In the second case, there is no such popup.

EXPECTED RESULT
The same popup, regardless of preview type.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230315
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.2.4-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Bug Janitor Service 2026-01-02 16:22:03 UTC 
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/6137
Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2026-01-02 16:22:05 UTC 
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/6137
Comment 3 Méven 2026-01-07 09:17:22 UTC 
Git commit 0c6a4b6e791cbcbca699936df160ef2bbce33707 by Méven Car, on behalf of Alexander Wilms.
Committed on 07/01/2026 at 09:17.
Pushed by meven into branch 'master'.

kfontview: Fix missing character tooltips in "All Characters" preview mode

M  +28   -3    kcms/kfontinst/lib/FcEngine.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/0c6a4b6e791cbcbca699936df160ef2bbce33707