[systemsettings] [Bug 366352] New: Add option to disable embedded bitmaps in fonts (and perhaps disable them by default)

[anewuser via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366352

            Bug ID: 366352
           Summary: Add option to disable embedded bitmaps in fonts (and
                    perhaps disable them by default)
           Product: systemsettings
           Version: 5.7.3
          Platform: Neon Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: kcm_fonts
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: caipora at fastmail.fm
                CC: unassigned-bugs at kde.org

Users who install/copy certain popular TTF fonts to their systems can't view
them properly because they contain embedded bitmaps, which are used when the
font size is set to a small value, and they look bad on Linux. Disabling
embedded bitmaps in the ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf  file fixes this
problem.

Example code:
<match target="font">
        <edit mode="assign" name="embeddedbitmap"><bool>false</bool></edit>
</match>

My suggestion is to add an option to toggle embedded bitmaps through the Plasma
font options GUI.  This option will add the above code to the fonts.conf file
(if it doesn't exist yet), and change the boolean accordingly. 

If such an option is added, maybe you can disable font bitmaps by default,
since they are used basically just by those problematic proprietary fonts, as
far as I'm aware. 

References: 
http://askubuntu.com/a/594983
https://askubuntu.com/questions/21097

Reproducible: Always

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