On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:09 AM Jerry James <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am trying to track down a font problem with MuseScore: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1790829 > > The problem is that everything is displayed in Cantarell, no matter > which font the user actually selects. In the style menu, one can pop > up a list of fonts to choose from, and even though every font on the > system is displayed by name, the text samples are all displayed in > Cantarell. > > I spent several hours with GDB trying to figure this out (which is how > I was able to determine that Cantarell is the font we're always > looking at), but I still don't understand what is happening. It > finally dawned on me that I'm running a GNOME desktop, but MuseScore > is a Qt application. So I logged out, logged into a KDE Plasma > session, and (drum roll please) all of the fonts displayed correctly. > > The bug submitter pointed out that if one downloads the AppImage > created by MuseScore upstream, that displays all of the fonts > correctly. Even on my GNOME desktop, that is true. The fonts are all > correct. I can see that all of the Qt and X libraries are baked into > the AppImage, but why does that matter? > > Does anybody have experience with this sort of thing? It would be > nice if we could display the fonts correctly when running on a GNOME > desktop. Thanks,
It sounds like this might be a problem with QGnomePlatform, which handles Qt application's appearance settings when they run on GNOME, IIRC. Fabio > -- > Jerry James > http://www.jamezone.org/ > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
