[systemsettings] [Bug 326971] system settings / application appearace / fonts - DEFAULT button - resets the font information WRONG

[Alex]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326971

--- Comment #8 from Alex <m8r-k8qott at mailinator.com> ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> >  file is made to include a wrong value for "hintstyle"
> 
> But you can use System Settings to change that value, right? I do not
> understand why people insist on deleting the configuration file (and
> expecting the defaults to be how they like them), instead of changing the
> configuration to their needs.

You can get at the hintstyle setting via System Settings -> Application
Appearance -> Fonts -> Configure (anti-aliasing). However, this Configure
option is greyed out to start with, because "System Settings" is selected from
the anti-aliasing drop-down menu to start with. To enable the configure option
you have to select "Enabled" from the drop-down. So yes, you can change the
option from the GUI, but it wasn't obvious to me (a first time user). It was
visiting the "System Settings" GUI that caused the problem in the first place,
so I don't think it's obvious that visiting this again would be the way to fix
it, though you are right that it can be done and it would be a cleaner
workaround to the original problem.

To be clear, we are not complaining that the default is not to our personal
taste. I don't expect defaults always to be how I like them, though as it
happens the genuine default font setting looks absolutely fine to me, and is
(presumably) "hintstyle=none". What happens is that you do something that
should have no effect (look at your font settings) and the hintstyle changes
under your feat to medium, for no obvious reason and with no obvious way to
change it back (for one thing, because you don't know that it's the hintstyle
changing that has caused the problem).

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