https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364992
Bug ID: 364992 Summary: [Feature request] Add an option to disable the embedded "drawLineChar" mechanism Product: konsole Version: unspecified Platform: Other OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: wishlist Priority: NOR Component: font Assignee: konsole-de...@kde.org Reporter: ahyan...@gmail.com Currently, for certain box drawing characters, Konsole hardcode their shapes disregarding the font used. This has a few consequences: * When using a high quality font fine tweaked for use in a terminal, the quality becomes lower. The designer might have chosen better line widths, or different corner styles, which are all lost. * When using a high resolution screen, the pixel level line drawing done by Konsole produces unrecognizable characters. The problem worsens when double-line box drawing characters and bold font are involved. So I'm not asking to remove this line drawing feature, since it's still useful when one uses an inadequate terminal font. However, since nowadays high quality terminal fonts are much easier to come by, with all kinds of license from open source to free-of-charge to commercial, at least we should allow the user to use their box-drawing characters from their fonts. While this is a feature request, it's also a bug report, in the sense that the letter "╫", in bold style, is rendered insanely poorly, to the point that it's simply impossible to tell it's actually double vertical line and single horizontal line. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Copy the following character to Konsole: "╫". For worse result, set the font to bold. For worse result, use a high resolution screen. Grab quality free fonts, and set them. You will find the shape of "╫" does not change. Actual Results: You will see the glyph "╫", always drawn with lines of width of exactly one pixel. If you set it to bold, the vertical lines becomes two pixels wide, and the gap between the two vertical lines completely disappears. if you use a high resolution screen, you might not be able to spot it's two vertical lines without a magnifier. When you resize the terminal fonts, the line width of "╫" does not change, causing style inconsistency with your console font. Expected Results: Since this is a feature request, I wish we could have an option to simply use the box drawing glyphs built in the console font I chose. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.