Bug 473048 - Font Management: "Find duplicates" gives very wrong suggestions
Summary: Font Management: "Find duplicates" gives very wrong suggestions
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_fontinst (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2023-08-05 15:49 UTC by Guo Yunhe
Modified: 2024-05-08 15:04 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Guo Yunhe 2023-08-05 15:49:14 UTC 
Created attachment 160764 [details]
Duplicate fonts window

SUMMARY
These "duplicates" are actually not duplicates

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. System Settings -> Appearance -> Font Management
2. Click the "Find duplicates" button
3. Check the result of duplicate fonts

OBSERVED RESULT
As in the result, many fonts are marked as duplicates but none of them are real duplicates. For example, NimbusSansL-Bold.ttf and NimbusSansL-BoldCond.ttf actually look different, the later is more condensed.

EXPECTED RESULT
These visually different fonts should not be marked as duplicates

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nikos Platis 2024-05-08 15:04:55 UTC 
I would expect "Duplicates" to refer to fonts that exist twice in the system, by mistake. Instead, I, too, am getting a list with some of my fonts, for which there is no info about the duplication. On the window, the last column is empty for all suggested fonts.