[systemsettings] [Bug 315990] New: symbol fonts shows up in monospace font list

[Nan Zou]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315990

            Bug ID: 315990
           Summary: symbol fonts shows up in monospace font list
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: systemsettings
           Version: 4.9.5
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: kcm_fonts
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: nzou at lanl.gov
                CC: unassigned-bugs at kde.org

Created attachment 77676
  --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=77676&action=edit
list of monospace fonts

In the dialog to select default monospace fonts.  A number of fonts show up
that aren't actually monospace fonts.  For example, Marlett, Symbol, Symbol
Neu, Wingdings, Webdings, etc.  See  attached screenshot.  Many of these fonts
come from Window.  I thought maybe they falsely advertise themselves as
monospace.  So I tried to edit their spacing property in ~/.fonts.conf like
this:

 <match target="font">
  <test name="family">
   <string>Symbol</string>
  </test>
  <edit name="spacing">
   <const>proportional</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <test name="family">
   <string>Symbol Neu</string>
  </test>
  <edit name="spacing">
   <const>proportional</const>
  </edit>
 </match>

But this has no effect, they still show up in the list and Konsole's available
font list as well (where they obviously can't be used).  This might be a Qt bug
not detecting the correct font metric.  But what metric is it querying so I may
try to provide a workaround with local fontconfig setting.

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