> On April 21, 2015, 10:40 p.m., Luigi Toscano wrote: > > I think this should go to Qt (I think it's quite difficult they will accept > > it, as Qt4 is in hard freeze mode), and they will probably ask to see if it > > applies to Qt5 as well. > > We just mirror Qt... not sure how to handle this. > > Luigi Toscano wrote: > Yes, I know you wrote that it should go to Qt, just stating that I'm not > sure how to handle this patch in our Qt mirrors. > > Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote: > +1, we shouldn't go about maintaining a patched Qt4 fork.
Our Qt mirrors are configured to be exact copies of the upstream code.qt.io mirrors, therefore any patches have to go through Qt Project to form part of our mirrors of it. - Ben ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123458/#review79313 ----------------------------------------------------------- On April 21, 2015, 10:06 p.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123458/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated April 21, 2015, 10:06 p.m.) > > > Review request for KDE Software on Mac OS X and Qt KDE. > > > Repository: qt > > > Description > ------- > > Handling of and support for less common font weight/style combinations is far > from ideal on OS X but not perfect on Linux either. It is not difficult to > run into typefaces that will not be restored properly from settings files for > instance, because QFont(family,weight,style) and other methods to obtain a > QFont from a font description do not return the appropriate font. > This is especially the case on OS X where the code makes the assumption in at > least two locations that anything that isn't "Normal" is "Bold". In other > places, including generic code, parsers apply overly course numberic weight > classifications or fail to consider weights like "Medium", "Semibold", > "Regular", "Roman" etc. (and return a fall-back weight: Normal). > Among the font families that are affected there are als common fonts like > Segoe UI and Helvetica Neue (UI fonts on MS Windows and OS X 10.10+). NB: > medium/semi-/demi-bold weights are perfect in UIs on high-resolution screens. > > The proposed patch improves the code by adding additional checks against > style names and weights. The changes are not only to Mac-specific files so > Linux benefits from this too (and other platforms ought to, as well). > > I'm putting it up for review on here mainly for lack of time to figure out > why I failed to get in onto Qt's own code review site. It may appear there > too, but if not: > > I herewith put the attached code changes in the public domain, for possible > inclusion into the Qt 4.x codebase under the license that governs that > software. > > > Diffs > ----- > > src/gui/dialogs/qfontdialog.cpp d791462 > src/gui/dialogs/qfontdialog_mac.mm d557a7a > src/gui/kernel/qt_mac.cpp fb241ce > src/gui/text/qfontdatabase.cpp 4c2ace4 > src/gui/text/qfontdatabase_mac.cpp 816a7bd > src/gui/text/qfontengine_coretext.mm 204d685 > src/plugins/platforms/fontdatabases/coretext/qcoretextfontdatabase.mm > 312015f > tools/qtconfig/mainwindow.cpp 1bb6e4e > > Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123458/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > On OS X 10.9.5 and Kubuntu 14.04.2 against Qt 4.8.7 with the qtconfig utility > and the attached test application > > > File Attachments > ---------------- > > fontweight issue test application > > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/04/21/bbebc0af-e457-4fdf-965c-3918d8e871d0__fontweightissue.pro > fontweight issue test application > > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/04/21/cfdcbf23-406a-4abf-b0cb-5fdc1957dfe9__main.cpp > fontweight issue test application > > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/04/21/9898afae-82ca-4c92-b7d9-5607d0dd8e24__dialog.h > fontweight issue test application > > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/04/21/8ad258bf-7f82-4db4-a344-ce81d75e8c50__dialog.cpp > fontweight issue test application > > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/04/21/2f0a7c6e-4601-406e-b703-603a36bff62b__fontweightissue.desktop > > > Thanks, > > René J.V. Bertin > >