Bug 252312

Summary:	x11-libs/qt-gui: hardcoded font substitution
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ivan Mironov <mironov.ivan>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Qt Bug Alias <qt>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Difference between Qt3 and Qt4 font rendering missing patch

Description Ivan Mironov 2008-12-23 21:12:53 UTC

At least cyrillic characters in Qt4 applications looks ugly because font substitution hardcoded in Qt GUI library (i.e. "Sans Serif" -> "Helvetica"). And this can't be changed by qtconfig or manually editing .config/Trolltech.conf.

I found a patch that fixes this problem: https://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/qt4/F-8/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.4-no-hardcoded-font-aliases.patch?view=markup (tested with x11-libs/qt-gui-4.4.2).

Comment 1 Ivan Mironov 2008-12-23 21:24:14 UTC

Created attachment 176254 [details]
Difference between Qt3 and Qt4 font rendering

This is parts from screenshots of qtconfig 3 and 4 with identical font settings (family: Sans Serif, style: Normal, point size: 9).

Comment 2 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-24 14:26:16 UTC

Thanks for the patch.

I ll take a look and report back

Comment 3 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-07 18:12:05 UTC

This patch has been applied on qt-gui-4.5 ebuild which is on kde-crazy overlay.

Since I cant test it on my machines ,could you please give it a shot and tell me if it fixes your issue?

Thanks

Comment 4 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-30 15:26:57 UTC

The ebuild can now be found on qting-edge overlay

Please give it a shot to verify that this patch solves your issue

Comment 5 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-02-12 11:59:17 UTC

This patch now applies on qt-gui-4.5.0_rc1 . You might want to test it and report here any problems

Comment 6 Chris Slycord 2009-02-12 16:36:50 UTC

Created attachment 181798 [details]
missing patch

Uploading patch for those who don't want to search for the overlay.

Comment 7 Chris Slycord 2009-02-12 16:40:15 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> Created an attachment (id=181798) [edit]
> missing patch
> 
> Uploading patch for those who don't want to search for the overlay.
> 

Nevermind that wasn't needed I am too tired.

Comment 8 Ivan Mironov 2009-02-20 07:53:19 UTC

This patch is already included in ebuild x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.0_rc1-r1, so I think that the bug can be closed.