Wrong font names

[James Richard Tyrer]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Examples:
> 
> I have BitStream ITC Zapf Chancery with these four faces:
> 
>     Medium
>     Medium Italic
>     Demi
>     Bold
> 
> But the KDE Font Selector lists:
> 
>     Regular
>     Italic
>     Demi Bold
>     Demi Bold Italic
>     Bold
>     Bold Italic
> 
> IMHO, it is OK to call the standard face: "Regular" ONLY if it doesn't 
> have a name.  If it does have a name why shouldn't that be used.  Also, 
> the two simulated "Italic" faces are properly called: "Oblique".
> 
> And, is there a way to turn OFF the the manufactured Oblique faces?
> 
> Then there is ITC Bookman. I have installed these four faces:
> 
>     Light
>     Light Italic
>     Demi
>     Demi Italic
> 
> But the KDE Font Selector lists:
> 
>     Light
>     Light Italic
>     Regular
>     Regular Italic
> 
> Yes, Demi should be the default face if there is no "Medium" or "", but 
> why does it have to change the name?
> 
> What is the problem?  FontConfig lists these correctly, so is it Qt or 
> KDE that is screwing this up?  Is it a bug that should be reported?

Well I filed a bug report:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103852

and found that part of the problem is that it was coded that way. :-(

-- 
JRT

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