Re: KMail: fonts in message view look "rough"

[Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert@gmail.com>]

On Sonntag, 22. Dezember 2024 17:57:40 MEZ Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Frank Mehnert - 22.12.24, 17:51:59 MEZ:
> > Just to confirm: Same kmail font problem with a virgin KDE account
> > (still Wayland).
> 
> Could be some upstream issue. Did you look in their bug tracker / forum?
> 
> I did not see anything on the kdepim-users mailing list but I did not 
> follow it closely in the last weeks.

I think it's this issue:

  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482128

For now I added

  QT_SCALE_FACTOR_ROUNDING_POLICY=RoundPreferFloor

to /etc/environment which works around this problem. From the bug report:

> Notice that QT_SCALE_FACTOR_ROUNDING_POLICY=RoundPreferFloor doesn't
> solve the issue. The main issue is that the selected font in the
> configuration isn't used. In KMail, if you go to Configuration /
> Configure KMail / Appearance / Font  and select "Message text", in
> Plasma 5, you could change the displayed message font and size. In
> Plasma 6, you can't, it simply ignored.
>
> The only thing you can change is, in General tab, the minimum size
> for the font used.

Frank