Bug 561318

Summary: Liberation Mono font is not actually monospace, causing layout problems
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: C Sand <conradsand.fb>
Component: liberation-fontsAssignee: Caius Chance <K9>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: fonts-bugs, i18n-bugs, K9, petersen, yaneti
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example of the layout problem in Gedit
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layout problem in kwrite none

Description C Sand 2010-02-03 11:38:51 UTC 
Description of problem:

The "Liberation Mono" font is not really monospace. This causes layout problems in text editors (e.g. when editing source code).

I have experienced this with size 9 (haven't tried other sizes), on three editors: gedit, kwrite and kate.

Given that gedit and kwrite are using two different toolkits (GTK+ and Qt), it would appear that the bug is either in the font itself, or somewhere in the X server.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 12 + updates as of 29 January 2009.


How reproducible:
Always.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open an editor like gedit.
2. Change font to Liberation Mono 9.
3. Type in several columns of numbers, with spacing between the columns.

Actual results:
Text columns do not line up cleanly.

Expected results:
Text columns line up cleanly.


Additional info:
I'll attach a few example screengrabs (as followups to this bug report) which show the problem.
Comment 1 C Sand 2010-02-03 11:40:59 UTC 
Created attachment 388510 [details]
example of the layout problem in Gedit

shows the layout problem in Gedit.
Selected font is Liberation Mono 9.
Comment 2 C Sand 2010-02-03 11:42:00 UTC 
Created attachment 388511 [details]
layout problem in kwrite
Comment 3 Yanko Kaneti 2010-02-05 11:09:37 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 508899 ***