Created attachment 442876 [details] Screenshot of badly rendered font After upgrading to KDE 5 Plasma and the latest stable Portage tree I am stuck with bad rendering of certain fonts. The bad fonts appear in the KDE Application Menu, Dolphin, the system clock in the system tray and in drop down menues in many (but not all) application. I have provided a screenshot (attached file or see http://picpaste.com/bad_fonts-Gx3OVOhi.png ) where this can be seen. Directly after the upgrade to KDE 5 Plasma all fonts were OK. The problem started after I switched workspace theme (Settings -> System settings -> Workspace theme) from Breeze to Oxygen and back to Breeze again. Alternatively the problem started when I changed fonts from the defaul Noto Sans to DejaVue Sans (and back again). Now I am stuck with the badly rendered fonts, no matter what setting I have in Settings -> System settings -> Workspace theme or Settings -> System settings -> Font I have tried to create a new user to see if the problem persist, and it does. So the problem seem to be system wide rather that an individual user setting. # emerge --info Portage 2.2.28 (python 2.7.10-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.22-r4, 4.4.6-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.4.6-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-4550U_CPU_@_1.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 7868672 total, 5485140 free KiB Swap: 10485756 total, 10485756 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 06:00:01 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p42-r1 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1 app-shells/bash: 4.3_p42-r1::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.20.2::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.10-r1::gentoo, 3.4.3-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.3.1-r1::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.19.1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.10-r1::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.25.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 4.9.3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.3::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.22-r4::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 PhilsOverlay location: /usr/local/portage masters: gentoo local-crossdev location: /usr/local/portage-crossdev masters: gentoo priority: 9999 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--deep --with-bdeps y" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="rsync://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/gentoo/" LANG="sv_SE.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="X \ a52 aac acl acpi aes alsa amd64 apm avx avx2 berkdb bindist bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvb dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fma3 foomaticcdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gimp git glamor gnuplot gpm gtk handbook iconv ipod ipv6 java joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kipi kontact latex lcms ldap libnotify mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer multilib ncurses networkmanager nls nntp nptl ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pda pdf phonon plasma png policykit popcnt ppds qml qt3support qt4 qt5 quicktime readline rss sasl scanner sdl seccomp semantic-desktop sematic-desktop session sockets sound spell sse sse2 sse3 sse4 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg tcpd threads tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vaapi vcd vorbis widgets wifi wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xface xine xinerama xml xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64 32" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 fma3 mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" L10N="sv en-US" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="sv en_US" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20 ruby21" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, 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I may add that my graphics HW is Intel HD Graphics 5500 The Haswell graphics controller is loaded: # lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep LoadModule [ 10.196] (II) LoadModule: "glx" [ 10.211] (II) LoadModule: "intel" [ 10.214] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting" [ 10.215] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev" [ 10.215] (II) LoadModule: "vesa" [ 10.226] (II) LoadModule: "dri2" [ 10.226] (II) LoadModule: "present" [ 10.347] (II) LoadModule: "evdev" [ 10.368] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics The following x11-driver is installed x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel Latest version available: 2.99.917-r2 Latest version installed: 2.99.917-r2 Size of files: 2 207 KiB Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ Description: X.Org driver for Intel cards License: MIT
This is probably a bug in the way KDE determine the System default settings for my particular screen and monitor. I have managed to apply a manual setting, which mitigate the problem, under Applikcation Launcher -> Settings -> System settings -> Fonts, as follows KDE Application Menu -> Settings -> System Settings -> Fonts -> <check the Force Fonts DPI button> and set it to 120 and KDE Application Menu -> Settings -> System Settings -> Fonts -> Use Anti-aliasing -> <change this from "System settings to" Enabled"> then proceed from there into the Configure... menu and experiment with RGB etc settings. For me it worked with: "Exclude range tick box": <Unchecked> "Subpixel rendering type": <RGB>" "Hinting style": <Medium> If I revert to System Default for all settings under KDE Application Menu -> Settings -> System Settings -> Fonts I get the badly rendered fonts back. I think the root cause is that the KDE 5 Plasma suite, together with Xorg, possibly in combination with how the Gentoo e-builds are setup for KDE 5 Plasma, does not recognize the type and specification of the screen and monitor I have and set the Font System Default settings accordingly. My screen is high resolution 2560x1440 pixel, 14" monitor (Computer is Lenovo X1 Carbon laptop, type 20A7-005KMS)
Thanks for reporting, but this is not a packaging issue. Please report upstream to improve the software.
