Bug 430210 - Font previews do not show up on Wayland
Summary: Font previews do not show up on Wayland
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: kio-extras
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: Thumbnails and previews (show other bugs)
Version: 21.12.1
Platform: Archlinux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Keywords: wayland
: 448755 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2020-12-10 11:24 UTC by Patrick Silva
Modified: 2023-09-03 15:07 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Description Patrick Silva 2020-12-10 11:24:15 UTC 
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. start Wayland session
2. open Dolphin
3. make sure font preview is enabled in "Previews" tab of Dolphin settings
and "Show previews" feature of Dolphin is enabled
4. activate editable location bar by pressing ctrl+l, type "fonts:/", press enter, open "System" folder

OBSERVED RESULT
no font preview

EXPECTED RESULT
font previewer should work on Wayland

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.77.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Comment 1 Patrick Silva 2022-01-19 13:43:59 UTC 
*** Bug 448755 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Martin Tlustos 2022-02-11 08:30:12 UTC 
Also kfontview can't open font files under wayland, probably for the same reasons
Comment 3 Patrick Silva 2022-02-11 10:10:37 UTC 
(In reply to Martin Tlustos from comment #2)
> Also kfontview can't open font files under wayland, probably for the same
> reasons

reported as bug 439470
Comment 4 phrxmd 2022-05-13 07:20:58 UTC 
I can still reproduce this on Plasma 5.24.5 on OpenSUSE TW.