[systemsettings] [Bug 413133] Plasma always forces its own font configuration breaking system one

[David Edmundson]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413133

--- Comment #3 from David Edmundson <kde at davidedmundson.co.uk> ---
>I think people uses Plasma Desktop to configure things by the graphic interface,

Those people are not remotely affected. Only people who have modified configs
manually at some  point anyway.

The issues comes from KDE having a simplified version of the settings and
fontconfig having a super-duper blown mega complex config, which we couldn't
possibly summarise in a UI. Then we're in a classic problem of having two
sources of truth.

one solution we could do is make use of fontconfig cascading and put things in:
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/conf.d/00-kde.conf  then we wouldn't risk
overriding other files.

It means the KCM could occasionally lie, but only if a user has gone out of
their way to do their own fonts meddling - at which point it's on them.

>There's also the issue that disabling the antialiasing in the kcm will gray out the other options, which is completely meaningless.

Yes. Though it's best if we don't mix up bug reports with multiple topics.

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