Bug 201158

Summary: Broken text rendering in GNOME apps during login to KDE desktop
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: A S Alam <aalam>
Component: fontconfigAssignee: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad>
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gedit screenshot in kde dekstop
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Firefox on KDE desktop with English locale
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Firefox on KDE desktop with English locale
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Description A S Alam 2006-08-03 09:23:42 UTC 
Description of problem:
when login to KDE desktop, fonts for Indic (+english) are looking ugly,
specially Gnome Applications's Shape is really bad (check screenshot).
Firefox/Thunderbirds are even worse (some time English text is not appeared on
those.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fontconfig-2.3.95-6

How reproducible:
Everytime during login to KDE desktop

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login by choose Language Punjabi (hindi) and KDE dekstop (please try with new
added user)
2. open Gedit (any gnome application) and Firefox
3. 
  
Actual results:
fonts are Ugly

Expected results:
fonts should have proper shapes

Additional info:
Comment 1 A S Alam 2006-08-03 09:23:43 UTC 
Created attachment 133543 [details]
gedit screenshot in kde dekstop
Comment 2 A S Alam 2006-08-03 09:31:36 UTC 
by testing with New user, LANG=en_US, fonts are also Ugly, adding Screenshot
kde-en-desktop1.png  and kde-en-ff1.png (where firefox is showing some english text)
There is no ~/.font.conf file for user
Comment 3 A S Alam 2006-08-03 09:32:45 UTC 
Created attachment 133544 [details]
Firefox on KDE desktop with English locale
Comment 4 A S Alam 2006-08-03 09:36:21 UTC 
Created attachment 133545 [details]
Firefox on KDE desktop with English locale
Comment 5 A S Alam 2006-08-03 09:37:45 UTC 
Created attachment 133546 [details]
KDE desktop in English locale
Comment 6 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-08-03 17:11:34 UTC 
This is a cairo 1.2 bug.  Being fixed for cairo 1.2.2.
Comment 7 A S Alam 2007-04-12 12:45:25 UTC 
it is working fine, tested with following package:
cairo-1.4.2-1.fc7