Bug 504218

Summary: Help system viewer is scrambled
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: Yani <akayanni>
Component: applicationAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: john.kizer
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 25.04.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Yani 2025-05-14 14:46:40 UTC
Created attachment 181295 [details]
Screengrab

SUMMARY
Bug in help system viewer

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Kate
2. View help


OBSERVED RESULT
Scrambled

EXPECTED RESULT
Normality

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora KDE
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0
Qt Version: 6.9

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Seems a bit strange I can't see any reports on this. Seems off to exist as a bug at all.
Comment 1 John Kizer 2025-05-16 18:30:16 UTC
Hi - this appears to have been an upstream bug in Qt 6.9 - discussion, and an identified workaround, can be found on the KDE Discuss forum at: https://discuss.kde.org/t/some-of-my-kde-apps-arent-working-properly/32522/12

Thanks!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 502631 ***