Bug 1250964

Summary:

[RHEL7.2][google-noto-fonts][gedit] google-noto-fonts has square boxes in gedit font selection window

Product:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Reporter:

Krishna Babu K <kkrothap>

Component:

gtk3

Assignee:

Benjamin Otte <otte>

Status:

CLOSED UPSTREAM

QA Contact:

Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>

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low

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medium

Version:

7.2

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kkrothap, mclasen

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i18n

Target Release:

7.2

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2015-08-20 20:01:03 UTC

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Description Krishna Babu K 2015-08-06 11:28:49 UTC

Description of problem:
While choosing google-noto-fonts in gedit's font selection window, the preview text appearing in square boxes with code values.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
google-noto-*-fonts-20130807-2.el7.noarch
gedit-3.14.3-6.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open 'gedit' -> 'preferences'
2. Goto 'Font&Colors' tab and click on 'Editor font' selection menu.
3. Search for 'noto'. Preview text of listed font's is in square boxes.

Actual results:
Preview text contains square boxes with code values .

Expected results:
Preview text should not contain square boxes.

Additional info:
Screenshot attached for reference.

Comment 1 Krishna Babu K 2015-08-06 11:32:30 UTC

Created attachment 1059853 [details]
Screenshot to reference google-noto-fonts issue

Comment 3 Pravin Satpute 2015-08-10 06:47:37 UTC

This is not an issue with fonts side. But rather font-viewer side.

But thinking about Noto family. I think it will be good to use alias rather than individual fonts name. It eating complete space. 

So all Noto family fonts will use single name. "Noto Sans"

Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2015-08-11 06:34:52 UTC

I feel this might/should be better addressed first in Fedora.

Comment 5 Jens Petersen 2015-08-11 06:51:31 UTC

Moving to gtk3 based on first sentence of comment 3.
But again this is probably something that needs to be addressed
upstream in that case.

Comment 6 Matthias Clasen 2015-08-17 19:52:31 UTC

The font doesn't have coverage for the latin example text, would guess. Nothing GTK+ can magically fix. If we use fallback there, that would be misleading - you want to see how the font itself looks.

Comment 7 Matthias Clasen 2015-08-20 20:01:03 UTC

But I agree with Jens comment 4: this needs to be discussed and fixed upstream (gnome/fedora) first.