hint monospaced fonts horizontally and vertically

this is more of a workaround, there is a bug lurking somewhere in Konsole
probably since there are plenty of hacks related to fonts there

for reference:
https://github.com/fluxer/katana/issues/29

Signed-off-by: Ivailo Monev <xakepa10@gmail.com>

diff --git a/src/gui/text/qfontdatabase.cpp b/src/gui/text/qfontdatabase.cpp
index c1ea443..45f83f5 100644 (file)
--- a/src/gui/text/qfontdatabase.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/text/qfontdatabase.cpp
@@ -252,6 +252,11 @@ QFontDef qt_FcPatternToQFontDef(FcPattern *pattern, const QFontDef &request)
         fontDef.ignorePitch = true;
     }
 
+    // hint monospaced fonts horizontally and vertically
+    if (fontDef.fixedPitch && fontDef.hintingPreference == QFont::PreferVerticalHinting) {
+        fontDef.hintingPreference = QFont::PreferFullHinting;
+    }
+
     return fontDef;
 }