Bug 18145

Summary:	Cannot import fonts with systemsettings in plasma
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Muhammad Tailounie <mageia>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	KDE maintainers <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	17523

Description Muhammad Tailounie 2016-04-06 19:59:25 CEST

Description of problem:
Copying Windows Fonts folder onto Linux and trying to import it using systemsettings in plasma fails. The process dies then sarts over once and then dies again..

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Plasma systemsettings->Font->Font Management->Add 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start systemsettings
2. Choose Font
3. Click on Font Management
4. Click Add
5. Navigate to the folder where you have the fonts
6. Select all
7. Proceed adding

Marja Van Waes 2016-04-09 11:04:06 CEST

CC: (none) => marja11
Blocks: (none) => 17523
Assignee: bugsquad => mageia

Samuel Verschelde 2016-08-25 16:25:12 CEST

Assignee: mageia => kde

Comment 1 Nicolas Lécureuil 2017-03-18 01:45:02 CET

is it still valid with current cauldron ?

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 2 Muhammad Tailounie 2017-03-18 20:10:22 CET

As  a normal user one can not add system fonts. Launching systemsettings5 with kdesu; fonts install correctly.

So I guess one should only launch systemsettings5 as root then this is no problem..

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME