Bug 157930

Summary: Changing fonts from Kcontrol will enable hinting and make it default. All this information it writes to ~/.fonts.conf
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Ankit Patel <ankit>
Component: kdebaseAssignee: Lukáš Tinkl <ltinkl>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version: 4.0CC: eng-i18n-bugs, jgrulich, petersen, than
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Description Ankit Patel 2005-05-17 08:19:13 UTC
Description of problem:
I have tried to change my appearance (spicifically fonts) from the kcontrol.
After changing the appearance i have logged into the Gnome session. I surprised
to see my hinting is enabled in Gnome, though it was not enabled. I have tried
to change the hintings from the Kcontrol and Gnome's Main menu => preferences =>
Fonts => Details => Hinting. But the result remains the same. After that i have
removed ~/.fonts.conf file, and logged into Gnome again. Then only my hinting is
disabled. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
KDE Control Center: 3.3.1-2.1 Red Hat

How reproducible:
Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Change fonts from kcontrol
2.logout
3.login into Gnome session, you can find enabled hinting.
  
Actual results:
Affect the hinting style.

Expected results:
Don't affect the hinting.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Leon Ho 2005-05-17 08:49:45 UTC
Moving to correct component:
[root@wow ~]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/kcontrol
kdebase-3.4.0-5


Comment 2 Than Ngo 2005-05-17 09:13:29 UTC
does it appear in FC4 devel tree?

Comment 3 Ankit Patel 2005-05-17 09:59:11 UTC
Yes it's there on FC4 devel tree also !!!

Comment 4 Ankit Patel 2005-05-17 10:02:43 UTC
Just now i got new thing. Open "kcontrol" (control-center). Click on
"Appearance". Now when you click on "Fonts" in that then only it will create
automatically ~/.fonts.conf automatically. Simply you can say that when you
click on "Fonts" in the "Appearance" tab then "kcontrol" will create
~/.fonts.conf according to the settings in the "Fonts" tab and make it default,
So it may be used in Gnome also.

Comment 5 Ankit Patel 2005-05-17 10:20:32 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> Just now i got new thing. Open "kcontrol" (control-center). Click on
> "Appearance". Now when you click on "Fonts" in that then only it will create
> automatically ~/.fonts.conf automatically. Simply you can say that when you
> click on "Fonts" in the "Appearance" tab then "kcontrol" will create
> ~/.fonts.conf according to the 

'configuration' settings of the checkbox "use sub-pixel hinting for your fonts"
in the "Fonts" tab whether it's selected or not and make it default,

> So it may be used in Gnome also.



Comment 7 Mayank Jain 2006-06-08 12:36:22 UTC
This problem was found in rawhide too.

Comment 8 Lawrence Lim 2006-09-28 00:19:48 UTC
Clone to Fedora devel based on Comment #7.

Comment 9 Jens Petersen 2009-07-07 09:10:10 UTC
Closing out based on bug 208360 conclusion.