qt and kde font problem

adriang · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 1:56 pm Post subject: qt and kde font problem

i'm using gentoo 8 months now, and since i'm mainly a desktop user i took great care to make everything look fine, as i've been used from windows. especially font settings required lots of work, and i've been very happy after some lost weekends when i finally got all apps (gtk, kde, motif, mozilla, staroffice) looking as good as possible, with truetype fonts and antialiasing rules in XftConfig.

a few days ago i had to recompile qt in order to make opera shared run without segfaults, and it worked. however, it screwed some fonts, of which 'fixed' was the most important. they all look very ugly now. i tried to fix it yesterday and i did various things, i don't remember them all, i played around with the kde font administration and mkfontdir. this fixed one problem i've always had (now i'm able to use tahoma in gtk apps, this has never worked before) and totally screwed up my qt font rendering. now almost every truetype font looks like helvetica, and not antialiased fonts (between 8 and 15 pt) look horrible. while aa-ed however, they look quite well. many fonts do not exist anymore, they are shown in font lists, but then are substituted with some others, and have wrong spacing.

another problem is that a few weeks ago, gtk2 fonts stopped antialiasing, but that's not important since i try to omit any gtk app and stick to kde/qt. i'm just using evolution (gtk1) and gimp 1.3 (gtk2).

you will notice in the screenshots that many fonts get mapped to helvetica, though fixed-width ones with wrong spacing (fixed spacing

) it's worth mentioning that nothing changed in the way how fonts are treated in motif or gtk, only qt lost them all.

i'm glad for any suggestion!
adrian

http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e9926374/fontproblem.png
kde 3.1 rc6
qt 3.1.0-r1
xfree 4.2.0-r12
xft 2.0.1

EDIT:
seems to be related to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13472

garo · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 2:11 pm Post subject:

I had also a font a problem yesterday (also in kde) and did the following:
1) comment all "fontpath" rules in my XF86Config
2) restart the x-server.
I used to had good font's without commenting the "fontpath" rules, but now for some strange reason i have to comment them...
You probably don't have the same problem but you could always try my solution...
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adriang · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 2:46 pm Post subject:

i'm sorry, i tried it but it doesn't work. qt/kde seem to have their own fontpath, since doing what you suggested breaks the fonts in all apps which are not written with qt.

thanks anyway
adrian