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Subject:    [systemsettings] [Bug 326971] New: system settings resets the font information WRONG - the default s
From:       Simon Andric <simonandric5 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-11-01 1:38:12
Message-ID: bug-326971-17878 () http ! bugs ! kde ! org/
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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326971

            Bug ID: 326971
           Summary: system settings resets the font information WRONG -
                    the default settings of fonts are not like from fresh
                    install
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: systemsettings
           Version: 4.11.60
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs@kde.org
          Reporter: simonandric5@gmail.com

Hello!

Let me first say, i am really very sensitive about how fonts look in kde. The
fact of the font outlook is essntial to the whole "beauty" of kde - more than
wallpapers, widgets, etc..

When you install kde from fresh - it has a very beautiful font configuration.
But - i dont know if that exists from long time ago or this problem appeared in
saucy/trusty packages, i now cannot fix it back, and im reporting it as a bug.

By default - if one looks under system settings / application appearance and
clicks on a font tab, with freshi nstall except for "mono" font the others are
chosen by default to use UBUNTU font. If i play around witheither different
sizes or diferent fonts and click apply... there is no way back - if you click
on the reset button - it changes those fotns to "Sans serif", and even if you
manually change all back to "ubuntu" it doesnt look the same anymore. First of
all the fotnd look very thin - so thin in fact, that they are sometimes
unreadable...specially inside of firefox... not to mention more ugly. Then i
went and in different forums i found a suggestion to delete
/home/(my_name)/.fonts.conf, that that solves the problem. Un fortunately i
dont have a fonts.conf, .fonts.conf, font.conf, .font.conf or any of those
variants anywhewre on the computer. i mulitple times tried so search with
dolphin's search AND with sudo dolphin+search. So i dont know where is the
original "beautiful" font information hidden or how to get it back. Strange
that the original font infrmation is NOT saved under the DEFAULTS button.

I tried to play wiht different antialiasing options + higher dpi - but nothing
gave me the desired results,... everytime at the end i finish with even worse
results than before...

i read this problem has to do sth with kde and gnome or maybe qt and gtk
progrtams interacting with each other...also a i saw this problem had plagued
kde since version 3 (by reading several old posts in forums about this error).

Please help me how to get the beautiful fonts back to kde, without me again
trying to install the whole kubuntu from scratch...and yes for a designer that
i am it is important enough that i would do it.. it bothers me this much. i can
of course ask in the forums ... but i filled this bug here mainly because of
defaults...

as far as bug is concerned just i wish that DEFAULTS button really recreates
the default kde-from-scratch font configuration ..

ps. i reported this problem to be in 4.11.60 which is part of project neon,
which i use. it also happens under regular kde 4.11.2. Maybe this issue is also
connected to project neon use?

other than that im already using packages in trusty-proposed, so im getting the
newest stuff..

thank you!

Symon 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. under fresh install (or any other) in systemsettings/application
appearance/fonts you change some fonts and click apply
2. log out log in or restart computer - go again to fonts under systemsettigns
aplpication appearance and click DEFAULTS button and apply - then again log off
log in or restart
3. the font configuraton becomes ugly, not thew way it should be, fotns become
very thin (even wrong fonts), and in firefox unreadable, liek they are low
resolution
Actual Results:  
fonts were thin , ugly and wrong

Expected Results:  
they should be EXACTLY THE SAME as they are when you install kde (in my case
kubuntu) fromliove CD or usb.

i think i said it all :) please forgive me if i wrote it in a bad tone - i
cannot help but beeing sensitive to fonts - computers are fairmost used for
READING..adn writing... the fonts are very important... i would say this brakes
a very important part of the system.

thank you for you kind help :)
s.

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