Description of problem:

When writing text into dialog boxes, such as the kicker search dialog, KDE does not appear to know the correct display width of some characters, resulting in strange display artifacts, such as the cursor showing in the wrong place.

I have attached pics where the cursor shows somewhere in the middle of the text rather than at the end of the line.

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

# rpm -q --info kdebase | head -2
Name        : kdebase                      Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 4.2.1                             Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 2.fc10                        Build Date: Wed 04 Mar 2009 04:12:08 PM EST


How reproducible:

Always.


Steps to Reproduce:
On my machine I can reproduce via using the Liberation Sans Regular font, at size 8.

1. Open the kicker menu.
2. Type a's into the search box and watch the position of the cursor.

  
Actual results:

Cursor position is not at the end of the text.


Expected results:

Cursor position is at the end of the text.


Additional info:

I cannot reproduce the problem using Liberation Sans Regular, size 9.

Force fonts DPI is disabled.

Anti-aliasing is enabled.

Sub-pixel rendering is enabled (RGB).

Hinting style is Medium.

I am using freetype-freeworld 2.3.7.2 from Livna.

I have attached two pics:

Liberation Sans Regular, size 9, no problem:
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/5628/fontdialogwithasize9.png

Liberation Sans Regular, size 8, showing problem:
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/7547/fontdialogwithasize8.png
(the cursor is at the end of the text, but is not showing there)

This also happens in other dialog boxes, such as krunner and others.