KMail: fonts in message view look "rough" (was: Re: KDEPIM with SQLite3)

From	Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.kde
Subject	KMail: fonts in message view look "rough" (was: Re: KDEPIM with SQLite3)
Date	2024-12-22 12:30 +0100
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Hi Frank, hi.

Frank Mehnert - 22.12.24, 09:47:41 MEZ:
> Unrelated topic: Since kmail was upgraded, the fonts in the message view
> look "rough". See attached part of a screenshot (sorry for the
> attachment). Doesn't matter if I use the fixed font (Hack) or the
> normal one (Noto Sans). In the font setting dialog both fonts look
> smooth!

Strange.

Just looks fine here. 

Even with fractional scaling 150%.

Hmm, but for some reason I do not have the Noto Sans default font but a 
font called "Inter". Ah, I may have switched to it for seeing whether its 
readability is better than the default. But I did not even have it 
installed, so it may have used the default Noto Sans anyway. I bet I hadf 
it installed previously, but for some reason it has been removed. I now 
installed it. Let's see.

Anyway… it is just looking fine. Yours look like probably anti aliasing 
disabled? I have it enabled with RGB sub pixel rendering. And Hinting set 
to "light". Ah, but I also have force DPI for fonts set to 144 dpi. It is 
not recommended to set it here, but it may have been set automatically as 
I configured fractional scaling.

Well at least now you have some settings to look at and fiddle around with 
to see whether some can fix your issue. It is still quite confusing. The 
amount of different settings you have there.

But it also looks fine with the Hack 10 pt font I have for fixed width 
(toggable with "X" key by default).

I still run Plasma on X11. Are you on Wayland?

Best,
-- 
Martin

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  Re: KDEPIM with SQLite3 Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> - 2024-12-18 19:00 +0100
    Re: KDEPIM with SQLite3 Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2024-12-18 22:40 +0100
      Re: KDEPIM with SQLite3 Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> - 2024-12-19 09:30 +0100
        Re: KDEPIM with SQLite3 Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert@gmail.com> - 2024-12-21 18:10 +0100
          Re: KDEPIM with SQLite3 Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> - 2024-12-21 19:10 +0100
            Re: KDEPIM with SQLite3 Hefee <hefee@debian.org> - 2024-12-21 20:00 +0100
            Fonts in message look "rough" (was: KDEPIM with SQLite3) Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert@gmail.com> - 2024-12-22 12:20 +0100
              Re: Fonts in message look "rough" (was: KDEPIM with SQLite3) Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> - 2024-12-22 12:40 +0100
              KMail: fonts in message view look "rough" (was: Re: KDEPIM with SQLite3) Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> - 2024-12-22 12:30 +0100
                Re: KMail: fonts in message view look "rough" (was: Re: KDEPIM with SQLite3) Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> - 2024-12-22 12:40 +0100
              Re: KMail: fonts in message view look "rough" Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> - 2024-12-22 14:10 +0100
                Re: KMail: fonts in message view look "rough" Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert@gmail.com> - 2024-12-22 17:00 +0100
                Re: KMail: fonts in message view look "rough" Dietz Pröpper <dietz@rotfl.franken.de> - 2024-12-22 17:10 +0100
                Re: KMail: fonts in message view look "rough" Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert@gmail.com> - 2024-12-22 18:00 +0100
                Re: KMail: fonts in message view look "rough" Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> - 2024-12-22 18:00 +0100
                Re: KMail: fonts in message view look "rough" Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert@gmail.com> - 2024-12-22 18:20 +0100
                Re: KMail: fonts in message view look "rough" (upstream bug found) Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> - 2024-12-22 19:10 +0100
                Re: KMail: fonts in message view look "rough" (upstream bug found) Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano@tiscali.it> - 2024-12-23 00:20 +0100
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                Re: KMail: fonts in message view look "rough" Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> - 2024-12-22 17:00 +0100
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                Re: KDEPIM with SQLite3 Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> - 2025-03-01 11:00 +0100

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