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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kfontdialog and fixed width fonts
From:       Manuel Amador <amadorm () zeus ! usm ! edu ! ec>
Date:       2001-11-15 19:22:55
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This maybe bears relation to my problem.  If I enable antialiasing, *POF* the 
konsole fonts look EXTREMELY ugly (like courier or verdana only monospace).  
Only for that reason I\'m resigned to not use antialiasing.

Quoting Craig Drummond <cpdrummond@freeuk.com>:

> > I noticed, that the only fixed font I have available in KDE-3 is the
> > default \"fixed\". Investigation brought me to what is described as a
> > hack in KFontChooser::getFontList(). This hack oviously doesnt work 
> any
> > longer since the \"whole font thing\" in Qt3 seems to have changed 
> quite
> > a bit. 
> > 
> > I\'d be willing to try and fix this and send a patch if someone can
> > explain this to me a bit clearer. 
> > 
> > Qfont seems to have changed so that one can set any font to be of 
> fixed
> > width? This seems very strange but it is what I read from the qt
> > documentation. That would mean that all fonts should be available
> (in
> 
> > theory) for e.g. konsole and that after selection the font can be
> set
> 
> > to fixed. Obviously filtering out fonts doesnt make sense in that 
> case.
> > 
> > It\'s quite likely that I misunderstand this mess of choosing fonts
> by
> 
> > \"guess and hope it\'s there\" principle and I\'d appreciate some
> > enlightenment. 
> > 
> > Roland
> > PS: upon circumventing the fixed width hack, I am able to choose
> > different fonts (courier and courier new) but they all look exactly
> > like the fixed width font. 
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I\'m not 100% sure if this is the solution to your problem, but... If 
> you\'re using Anti-Aliased fonts, or have compiled Qt with Xft, then you
> 
> should add lines such as:
> 
> match any family == \"Courier New\"
> edit spacing = mono ;
> 
> This will tell Xft to treat \"Courier New\" fonts as monospaced. 
> KFontinst (CVS version) will add these entries automatically when you 
> instal fonts with it - it\'ll add similar entries for symbol encoded 
> fonts.
> 
> The above method helped me to get more font entries in the font dialog
> 
> for Konsole.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Craig.
>  
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   Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
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