With qt-3.1.0 installed, fonts in KDE-3.0.4 and KDE-3.1.0_rc3 are weird. Nearly all sans faces are shown as quasi-mono with extra spaces. Apps affected are konsole, kwrite, kate and kedit. Non-KDE apps OpenOffice are unaffected, as are koffice apps
is xft merged?
No, I don't use xft
Emerged qt-3.1.0-r1 and freetype-2.1.2-r2 today and font problems are still the same. Fonts affected (stretched horizontally unless otherwise stated) are: Arial, Arial Black (just squares), Banjoman Open Bold, Bermuda Solid, Broadway [Bitstream] and [Urw], Comic Sans Ms, Cooper Black (just squares), Diamond, Dixieland [2rebels], Emboss, Falstaff Festival Mt, Garamond [Digital Typeface Corp] and [Monotype], Georgia, Jazz Let, Jokerman, Keystrokes Mt, Lucida Handwriting, Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Unicode, Luxi Sans, Luxi Serif, Monotype Corsiva, Old English Text Mt, Optimum (just squares), Poster Bodoni Bt, Signet Roundhand Att, Signs Mt, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Trebuchet Ms, Usablack [2rebels], Usalight [2rebels], Verdana, Webdings, Wingdings, Zapfchan Mdit Bt, Zapfdingbats Bt.
Don't use xft-2 i.e. the x11-libs/xft package, or don't use xft1 either (i.e. no antialiasing)?
Clarification: xft-1 comes with xfree. Run qtconfig and look at the font selection dialog there, is it affected? With the xft setting there on, and off? Maybe try fiddling with your fonts.conf? :-)
Oh and how about non-kde/qt apps, are any of those affected? If you have some that use gtk2/xft it'll be a good test (gnome2, mozilla...)
What a mess! I didn't know about qtconfig - thanks. As I already said, non-KDE apps like Mozilla and OpenOffice are unaffected, as are koffice apps. I have used antialiasing by default for ages and before qt-3.1.0 I thought it was wonderful. So I turned it off in qtconfig (had to exit and reopen to see the effect) and then went to Control Centre -> Appearance & Themes -> Fonts. I turned off antialiasing but clicking the Apply button crashed kwin. I tried to save the backtrace but nothing would receive keyboard focus except kicker. On logging out and in, any changes to Control Centre -> Appearance & Themes -> Fonts gave the "Anti-Aliasing Settings Changed" warning, even when I only changed one font selection and hadn't touched the antialiasing checkbox - and kwin crashed. Anyway there was something in the backtrace about a liquid lib. I use Mosfet Liquid style so I changed that to Keramic. That got rid of the antialiasing warnings so I proceeded. I now went to login manager config and cleared the antialiasing setting. After I logged out it was difficult to log in - the login dialog was about three times wider than the screen! That was using Verdana 9 as standard and fail font; no antialiasing. I had to use helvetica to get a decent sized login box. I did all the above stuff as root and normal user and now I don't have as many fonts available but none of them are horizontally stretched. And I don't have antialising ... it's hideously ugly and spoils all the good things introduced in kde-3.1.
So what happens if you try to enable AA now (and without liquid)?
Created attachment 6104 [details] qtconfig with anialiasing disabled
Created attachment 6105 [details] qtconfig with antialising enabled
Added attachments: screenshots
Same problems here, since I updated my Qt (latest: 3.1.0-r1) i *had* mosfet-liquid-widgets, xft-2.0-r1, fontconfig-2.0-r4, freetype-2.1.2-r2, xfree-4.2.1, kdebase-3.0.4-r3, kdelibs-3.0.4-r1.
This problem seems to be resolved with kde-3.1_rc5 ... wonderful AA again, even with mosfet's theme :-)
Peter: what have you merged between not working fonts and worling fonts? Please append full list (it should be in /var/log/emerge.log). Cause I also know people who still have the same problem with kde-3.1...
from /var/log/emerge.log (very useful - didn't know it exists): mozilla-1.2 nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123-r1 (post kernel rebuild) nvidia-glx-1.0.3123 (post kernel rebuild) alsa-driver-0.9.0_rc6 (post kernel rebuild) lm_sensors-2.6.5 (post kernel rebuild) app-games/xmahjongg/xmahjongg-3.6.1 app-text/aspell-0.50.3 media-sound/timidity-eawpatches-12-r1 net-mail/pine-4.50-r3 app-cdr/cdrtools-2.0_pre1 app-office/koffice-1.2.1 net-misc/dhcpcd-1.3.22_p3-r2 sys-apps/portage-2.0.45-r1 dev-libs/expat-1.95.5-r1 net-www/mozilla-1.2.1 app-games/bumprace-1.45 net-mail/pine-4.50-r4 x11-base/xfree-4.2.1-r2 media-sound/zinf-2.2.1 x11-libs/pango-1.1.3 app-admin/gentoolkit-0.1.17-r5 x11-wm/fluxbox-0.1.13-r6 dev-libs/atk-1.1.1 gnome-base/control-center-2.0.3-r1 dev-lang/ocaml-3.06 dev-perl/Common-1.0.4 x11-libs/xft-2.0 x11-wm/fluxbox-0.1.13-r8 x11-wm/openbox-2.2.1-r1 x11-libs/gtk+-2.1.2 gnome-base/control-center-2.0.3-r1 gnome-base/gnome-2.0.3-r1 kde-base/arts-1.1.0.5 x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.9 app-misc/rox-1.3.5 kde-base/kdelibs-3.1_rc5 kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.1_rc5 kde-base/kdegames-3.1_rc5 media-sound/lame-3.93.0-r1 sys-kernel/ck-sources-2.4.20-r1 media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123-r2 media-libs/glut-3.7.1 media-libs/svgalib-1.9.16 kde-base/kdenetwork-3.1_rc5 x11-themes/mosfet-liquid-widgets-0.9.5-r1 kde-base/kdebindings-3.1_rc5 kde-base/arts-1.1.0_rc5 dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1_beta-r1 mozilla-1.2.1-r1
Hannes says rc5 has a new default font which doesn't suffer from this problem. I.e. the problem is still there for some fonts. Apparently freetype 2.1.3 has a fix for this matter. We'll work on getting it into portage.
FWIW - I am up to date on freetype-2.1.3 and I am not having any apparent font problems in the applications I've checked. These include Kate, Konq and several others. The version of KDE installed is 3.0.4.
OK, does anyone have any problems left?
OK now...suggest you close bug
Fine with me. :-)
OK :-)
