Bug 538460 - konsole: strange font effects when reverse video is used
Summary: konsole: strange font effects when reverse video is used
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: qt
Version: 12
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-11-18 16:20 UTC by Vincenzo "Enzo" Romano
Modified: 2010-12-04 03:13 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-12-04 03:13:13 UTC
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The screenshot after having selected a letter (84.86 KB, image/png)
2009-11-18 16:21 UTC, Vincenzo "Enzo" Romano
no flags Details
The screenshot before selecting a letter (reverse video) (84.67 KB, image/png)
2009-11-18 16:22 UTC, Vincenzo "Enzo" Romano
no flags Details

Description Vincenzo "Enzo" Romano 2009-11-18 16:20:42 UTC
Description of problem:
When reverse video is used the text is displaced from the original position.
The problem was not occurring with the same KDE in Fedora 11 (I am not sure whether the konsole version was the same).
See the screenshots.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
konsole 2.3.2
kde 4.3.2
Fedora 12

How reproducible:
Very oftem, but not always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open konsole and display some text (I did "ls -l /etc")
2. select a letter in a word (I selected the 1st "o" in the work "root")

  
Actual results:
The line starting from the selected text is displaced to the right by a few pixels

Expected results:
No text displacement should happen.

Additional info:
GTK+ widget style in use
Liberation font family in use
I upgraded from Fedora 11 with the "preupgrade" script.

Comment 1 Vincenzo "Enzo" Romano 2009-11-18 16:21:35 UTC
Created attachment 370122 [details]
The screenshot after having selected a letter

Comment 2 Vincenzo "Enzo" Romano 2009-11-18 16:22:18 UTC
Created attachment 370123 [details]
The screenshot before selecting a letter (reverse video)

Comment 3 Vincenzo "Enzo" Romano 2009-11-18 16:47:33 UTC
By changing the font to anything buy "Liberation mono" I get the problem fixed!

Comment 4 Rex Dieter 2009-11-18 17:11:22 UTC
Just noticed,
GTK+ widget style in use

I'd highly recommend not using that in KDE.  It's provided primarily as a fallback style for qt/kde apps running under gnome to look more native.

Comment 5 Rex Dieter 2009-11-18 17:13:38 UTC
We've had intermittent reports of text disappearing over f12 development cycle, and oftentimes, it was attributed to video driver issues.

What video hw/driver are you using?

Comment 6 Vincenzo "Enzo" Romano 2009-11-18 17:19:00 UTC
I am using Nouveau (nvidia)

Comment 7 Vincenzo "Enzo" Romano 2009-11-18 17:19:53 UTC
And switching to a different *KDE widget style* won't afftect the problem. Only changing the font away from Liberation Mono.

Comment 8 Kevin Kofler 2009-11-18 21:59:12 UTC
It looks like this font, while claiming to be monospaced, for some reason actually isn't. I'd blame either qt for misrendering the font / miscomputing character widths or liberation-fonts for just being broken. We need to figure out which package is at fault.

Comment 9 Kevin Kofler 2009-11-18 22:00:00 UTC
(See the second attachment - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=370123 - for evidence of that "not really monospaced" effect.)

Comment 10 Steven M. Parrish 2009-12-02 19:16:49 UTC
This bug has been triaged

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Comment 11 Bug Zapper 2010-11-04 06:12:04 UTC
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