Bug 87240

Summary:	Bold font versions are not used to render bold text, instead the standard font is rendered wider
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Martin <mp26>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Bugs <konsole-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.3.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description Martin 2004-08-15 11:28:28 UTC

Version:           1.3.2 (using KDE KDE 3.2.3)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

I have a font family comprising at least a normal and a bold version of the font.  In the font selection dialog all version can be selected and are used correctly by konsole.

However, if I choose the normal version I would expect the bold version to be used for bold text (like in man pages or if exlicitely switched on via escape sequences).

Konsole does *not* use the bold version, but instead renders my normal font twice, with a horizontal offset of one pixel.  This looks like bold, but the original bold font version is much nice.

Proposed solution: Just use bold font version directly if they are available.  Maybe this should be configurable.

Comment 1 Robert Knight 2006-10-01 05:34:27 UTC

Bold fonts seem to render properly in KDE 3.5.x for me, can you confirm whether it looks right for you?

Comment 2 Martin 2006-10-01 09:42:32 UTC

I rechecked with konsole version 1.6.2 in KDE version 3.5.2.

No change here.  I did not say, there is no boldification.  It is just that the bold font version is not used if available.

Comment 3 Robert Knight 2007-02-10 03:33:55 UTC

Will fix in the KDE 4 series.

Comment 4 Robert Knight 2007-07-24 19:32:13 UTC

Fixed in KDE 4, use normal Qt text rendering facilities to render bold text.  Looks much better than bold text in KDE 3's Konsole and avoids clipping the right-edge of characters.