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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Bug#27896: file manager) splits single chars from file names
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-07-01 17:21:37
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On Friday 29 June 2001 22:53, kde@jensbenecke.de wrote:
> Package: konqueror
> Version: 2.2alpha2 (using KDE 2.2.0 alpha2)
> Severity: normal
> Installed from:    Debian Package 4:2.2-cvs20010602-1 (testing/unstable)
> Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.4 20010604 (Debian prerelease)
> OS:                Linux (i586) release 2.4.5-w4l-jb
> OS/Compiler notes: 
> 
> Hi gurus,
> 
> I'm using the 2001-06-02 alpha2 code so things might have changed already. If so, \
> shame on me for not waiting about 20 hours (on my machine) for a recompile before \
> filing this report. ;) 
> When Konqueror displays directory contents in icon mode with the description \
> centered below the icon, (default I think), it cuts off between words buts STILL \
> adds a newline after the respective word. So that I sometimes have things like 
> America
> n
> Beauty
> 
> as a file description (note the "n" on its own line). This is especially annoying \
> since there apparently is no way to fix the font size seperately for file view, it \
> already is on 'small' and it's still 12pt (estimate) here, OR alteranatively to \
> make Konqueror display icons with more space left and right (NOT below and above). 
> I'm using TTF fonts (Verdana to be exact) but not via the freetype engine (too slow \
> here). 
> This has been happening since the first 2.0 release as far as I can remember - but \
> not with every font. (Helvetica, IIRC, didn't split single characters from words).

Looks like font metrics bug then (in the font, or in Qt's QPainter algorithm).

I have made the grid much larger recently, update kdebase/libkonq and tell me if it \
helps.

-- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
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