Good to know that #qt6 intentionally broke the fontconfig fallback font configuration on #linux and having the separate "Symbols Nerd Font" installed instead of having to install a custom patched nerd font no longer works and #kde konsole doesn't show the nerd symbols anymore 🎉.
@vascorsd I use kitty, so I hadn't noticed this. I tested a few monospaced typefaces, and only Delugia (no NF patch) worked as expected with Konsole. I guess I won't be using Konsole as my second terminal emulator
@brunomiguel it's the only terminal I've been using and seems to be a qt change, so yeah, other terminals should be ok. But it's a sad change.
The bad thing is that I only caught this because I was uninstalling the nerd patched fonts I was using and trying this fallback configuration for the first time, so I really got confused by wtf had I broken now 😅.
@brunomiguel let's say that searching fontconfig things and symlinking conf.d/avail files and then wondering what I broke, search the forums and ending up in qt bug trackers is always fuuuuunnnn 😀😅
@vascorsd The last time I did that (messing with fontconfig) was with Void Linux to improve the awful default font rendering it had at the time. I spent hours looking at files and documentation to make the fonts look good
@brunomiguel I also remember reading and searching about how it all worked and how to configure fontconfig. There was a period of time that fonts were not working properly, but I haven't needed to go this deep or understand any of this in a long long while. Fonts have been mostly working fine for me.
What I'm annoyed currently and haven't bothered to search is if there's a way to eliminate all the weird almost duplicates that appear in the fonts list. Oh well, another time.
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