Font issue in Flatpak

[mmahmoudian]

Font issue in Flatpak

[amolenaar]

Is this a problem only with Gaphor? Are there other GTK based flakpaks with the same issue?

Do you use a scaling factor?

On my machine (Fedora 39, 200% scaling) fonts look fine.

[danyeaw]

Hi @mmahmoudian, thanks for the bug report, but you didn't respond to @amolenaar's request for more info, and I think this is probably a KDE issue and potentially installing xdg-desktop-portal would resolve it as discussed here: flatpak/flatpak#4571

I don't think there is anything Gaphor can do to help resolve this, so I'm going to close this issue. If you think it is an issue with Gaphor, we can reopen it with your feedback. Thanks!

[mmahmoudian]

Is this a problem only with Gaphor? Are there other GTK based flakpaks with the same issue?

I rarely allow GTK stuff touch my computer i realized similar issue with another flowchart program as well, and their dev was active in responding. We figure together that this only happens on Wayland and if I switch to X11 the font issue would resolve. (But only the font issue)

Do you use a scaling factor?

No, so the porrly aligned text should have another reason

On my machine (Fedora 39, 200% scaling) fonts look fine.

I don't trust to test GTK stuff on a Gnome-bias OS. Ubuntu Debian and Fedora are primarily shipped with Gnome and are loaded with GTK stuff. Therefore they provide biased view. Flatpak should not have such issues in theory, but ... Ideally, spinning multiple VMs and testing in those can help escaping these biases.

potentially installing xdg-desktop-portal would resolve it

In today's Wayland world, one cannot survive without installing portals. I of course am no exception. I have portals installed. :)

I don't think there is anything Gaphor can do to help resolve this

Thanks. My responsibility as a caring user was to raise your attention to the issue with proper information. Whether you want to investigate it or not is of course entirely your choice :) thanks again for your time

[amolenaar]

Hi @mmahmoudian,

Thank you for for your feedback. Indeed, running GTK applications on GNOME can yield different results from running a GTK app in a different environment.

Flatpak should not have such issues in theory, but ...

There are so many real world scenarios. It's hard to cover every one of those. Maybe you want to raise it with the Flatpak people. They have a better understanding of what's needed inside and outside Flatpak (e.g. font files).

Thanks. My responsibility as a caring user was to raise your attention to the issue with proper information. Whether you want to investigate it or not is of course entirely your choice :) thanks again for your time

Thank you. Given we are mostly working on Gaphor in our spare time, our time is limited.

You're running a standard Manjaro install?

[mmahmoudian]

You're running a standard Manjaro install?

Yes, Manjaro KDE Plasma.

Given we are mostly working on Gaphor in our spare time, our time is limited.

I completely understand that. This is the situation with the majority of FLOSS tools including those that I work on, so I can fully sympathize. Thanks again for your contribution to FLOSS :)