Bug 315990 - symbol fonts shows up in monospace font list
Summary: symbol fonts shows up in monospace font list
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: kdelibs
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: kdeui (show other bugs)
Version: 4.9.5
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdelibs bugs
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Reported: 2013-03-01 23:08 UTC by Nan Zou
Modified: 2023-02-03 05:03 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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list of monospace fonts (44.35 KB, image/png)
2013-03-01 23:08 UTC, Nan Zou
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Description Nan Zou 2013-03-01 23:08:59 UTC
Created attachment 77676 [details]
list of monospace fonts

In the dialog to select default monospace fonts.  A number of fonts show up that aren't actually monospace fonts.  For example, Marlett, Symbol, Symbol Neu, Wingdings, Webdings, etc.  See  attached screenshot.  Many of these fonts come from Window.  I thought maybe they falsely advertise themselves as monospace.  So I tried to edit their spacing property in ~/.fonts.conf like this:

 <match target="font">
  <test name="family">
   <string>Symbol</string>
  </test>
  <edit name="spacing">
   <const>proportional</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <test name="family">
   <string>Symbol Neu</string>
  </test>
  <edit name="spacing">
   <const>proportional</const>
  </edit>
 </match>

But this has no effect, they still show up in the list and Konsole's available font list as well (where they obviously can't be used).  This might be a Qt bug not detecting the correct font metric.  But what metric is it querying so I may try to provide a workaround with local fontconfig setting.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2013-03-02 01:44:23 UTC
Likely a Qt bug, will check that later.
Comment 2 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-10 03:22:23 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 3 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-21 04:27:57 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? This bug will be moved back to REPORTED Status for manual review later, which may take a while. If you are able to, please lend us a hand.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 4 Justin Zobel 2023-01-04 07:05:34 UTC
Thank you for reporting this issue in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!
Comment 5 Bug Janitor Service 2023-01-19 05:13:19 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as
possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug
tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with
no change in 30 days the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

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If you have already provided the requested information, please
mark the bug as REPORTED so that the KDE team knows that the bug is
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Comment 6 Bug Janitor Service 2023-02-03 05:03:05 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the
wiki located here:
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