Default interface font is too bold in all Qt4 applications

Bug #741862 reported by Dmitry Tantsur
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This bug affects 28 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
unity-2d
Confirmed
Critical
Unassigned
qt4-x11 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
Unassigned
ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: libqtgui4 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.38-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 24 19:23:19 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru_RU:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: qt4-x11
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-07 (16 days ago)

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Dmitry Tantsur (divius) wrote :
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Dmitry Tantsur (divius) wrote :

Adding ubuntu-font-family as this problem appeared after it's upgrade today.

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Dmitry Tantsur (divius) wrote :

Also font cannot be changed via qtconfig-qt4 (see bug 576847).

Paul Sladen (sladen)
Changed in ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in qt4-x11 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in qt4-x11 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in qt4-x11 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
summary: - Font is too bold in all Qt4 applications
+ Default interface font is too bold in all Qt4 applications
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Dmitry Tantsur (divius) wrote :

Why "status incomplete"?? Ask questions if report lacks information.

Changed in qt4-x11 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
Changed in ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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Andrius Štikonas (stikonas) wrote :

I observe the opposite behavior: fonts in all KDE applications (but not in pure Qt4 apps) are too bold.

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dyna (ubuntu-dyna) wrote :

Having bold fonts in KDE apps after some update last week aswell.

Mingming Ren (portis25)
Changed in qt4-x11 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Florian Boucault (fboucault) wrote :

It is critical for Unity 2D to look good/normal that this bug gets resolved.

Changed in unity-2d:
milestone: none → 3.10
importance: Undecided → Critical
status: New → Confirmed
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Botond Szász (boteeka) wrote :

I have commented on a duplicate of this (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/751048/comments/1) but I'll repeat it here, maybe it will help.

My theory is that QT apps use the "Medium" variant of the font instead of the "Regular" variant if the font in use has a "Medium" variant, because up until now the Ubuntu font did not have a "Medium" variant and everything worked fine. After the upgrade the newer version of the Ubuntu font has a "Medium" variant and suddenly the QT apps now render with a bolder font.

If I happen to set the application font to the Ubuntu "Medium" variant in the Appearances dialog then the fonts in GTK+ and QT apps looks to be rendered the same.

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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) wrote :

Is bug 744812 a duplicate of this one? There are some Mark Shuttleworth's comments there.

Felix Geyer (debfx)
tags: added: kubuntu
Changed in qt4-x11 (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → ubuntu-11.04-beta-2
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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote :

Confirming... Also, using qtconfig-qt4 to change the font style from "Normal" to "Light" (which would fix the issue) doesn't makes changes; since that tool doesn't seem to save that setting!

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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LiohMoeller (liohmoeller) wrote :

Still valid in 12.04 (20120317)

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Shaun P (sigmagammapi) wrote :

Also still true in Quantal. I noticed this change after the "Ubuntu Medium" font was reintroduced in a software update.
[ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-font-family-sources/+bug/1048600 ]

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