Created attachment 138853 [details] Bad fonts kerning See attached image.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-systemmonitor/-/merge_requests/138
Git commit 1a73a20bbc86bf13daf726c8ba5fe240c589a58b by David Redondo. Committed on 31/05/2021 at 09:32. Pushed by davidre into branch 'master'. Do not position dialogs at fractional positions Can cause bad font rendering Related: bug 437805 FIXED-IN:5.22 M +1 -1 src/page/LoadPresetDialog.qml M +1 -1 src/page/PageDialog.qml M +1 -1 src/page/PageSortDialog.qml M +1 -1 src/table/ColumnConfigurationDialog.qml M +1 -1 src/table/KillDialog.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-systemmonitor/commit/1a73a20bbc86bf13daf726c8ba5fe240c589a58b
Git commit d4f5365fc0f1785a02f4ebbbb48fd4a7c106bd5d by David Redondo. Committed on 01/06/2021 at 09:20. Pushed by davidre into branch 'Plasma/5.22'. Do not position dialogs at fractional positions Can cause bad font rendering Related: bug 437805 FIXED-IN:5.22 (cherry picked from commit 1a73a20bbc86bf13daf726c8ba5fe240c589a58b) M +1 -1 src/page/LoadPresetDialog.qml M +1 -1 src/page/PageDialog.qml M +1 -1 src/page/PageSortDialog.qml M +1 -1 src/table/ColumnConfigurationDialog.qml M +1 -1 src/table/KillDialog.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-systemmonitor/commit/d4f5365fc0f1785a02f4ebbbb48fd4a7c106bd5d
The bug reappears on 5.27.9, especially when you resize system monitor window, you can clearly see that "OK" and "Cancel" text starts to distort at certain sizes. See attached video for more info.
Created attachment 162843 [details] font distort
I can no longer reproduce this with Plasma 6. The dialogs were ported to upstream components which likely handle this better.