Thank you for the report. I notice it is for Cauldron, which is always a risky business. Have these rather basic problems happened since you installed the packages, or after recent updates?
For Mageia 8:
 kmail-20.12.0-1.mga8
 falkon-3.1.0-6.mga8
 qtwebengine5-5.15.2-2.mga8
Can you say exactly what versions you have of Kmail & Falkon; also, when they were updated:
 $ rpm -q --last kmail falkon qtwebengine5

Kmail is widely used, so such a basic complaint will not go unnoticed! As for Falkon, I use it daily - but not the Cauldron version.

Could it be language related? You look to be in Romania, which we see rarely.

Status: NEW => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => lewyssmith

The problem appeared after latest updates, until now it worked allright (with small quirks), right now package versions are: kmail-21.04.0-1.mga9.x86_64 , qtwebengine5-5.15.2-3.mga9.x86_64 , falkon-3.1.0-6.mga8.x86_64. I'll try to downgrade qtwebengine5 package, to see if it helps.

Sorry, Cauldron Cauldron Cauldron = Unstable.

This sort of report can't land Bugzilla and Bugsquad anymore at first attention.
If you really need to work under Cauldron to test/adapt your software, you need:

- Subscribe to Mageia Dev Mailing List here:
https://ml.mageia.org/l/info/dev

- Report here at first intention potential broken packages in a mail.

When writing a mail to dev ML, the packager will look your mail and try to answer more quicker than writing a bug report.

You report this while we were working on pushing KDE Gears 21.04 applications from cauldron/core/updates_testing repos to cauldron/core/release.

So, perhaps a RPM was not properly updated.
We, at bugsquad, can't really look to all Cauldron bugs when Cauldron is not in a testing mode. It is early in development stage. Bugzilla should at least have reports for stable-only release.

CC'd this to Dev ML, KDE ML.

Assigning this to KDE Maintainers as Cauldron-only.

(In reply to Cristian Pîrîu from comment #2)
> The problem appeared after latest updates, until now it worked allright
> (with small quirks), right now package versions are:
> kmail-21.04.0-1.mga9.x86_64 , qtwebengine5-5.15.2-3.mga9.x86_64 ,
> falkon-3.1.0-6.mga8.x86_64. I'll try to downgrade qtwebengine5 package, to
> see if it helps.

No, don't do this until a Mageia's dev/packager wants you to do this.
In meantime, make sure all Cauldron packages have been updated by issuing in a terminal as root:

urpmi --auto-update --force

Severity: normal => major
Assignee: bugsquad => kde
Status: NEEDINFO => NEW
CC: (none) => ouaurelien

OK, thank you.

Created attachment 12690 [details]
Kmail - plaintext view

I'm seeing this as well.  Here's a screenshot of viewing a single email in a new window (The same display is in the main window)

Plain Text view

CC: (none) => curtis_mageia

Created attachment 12691 [details]
Kmail - html message view

Same message HTML view

This is on an up to date Cauldron.

Thanks for this evidence.

CC: lewyssmith => (none)

*** Bug 28871 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => thomas.bigot

As we know that font does not seem to be properly rendered,

@reporter and @Thomas from bug 28871, can you try to go there:

Make sure to select:
systemsettings5 => Appearance => Global Theme
"Breeze" (by double-click on it)

Next, in systemsettings5 => Appearance => Plasma Style to be set to "Breeze Light"

Next, in systemsettings5 => Appearance => Colors  to be set to "Breeze Light"

Try again.

I wonder if there is something wrong in default theme to be selected.

I’ve just tried to set all settings to Breeze light (as you suggested), and this made no difference: still no font rendering.

Sorry for the duplicate, and thanks for your help.

Please forget Comment 9 and 10. I confirm bug is still here as I tested a Cauldron VM.

Note also even with qtwebengine5-5.15.2-4.mga9.src.rpm

Source RPM: qtwebengine5-5.15.2-3.mga9.src.rpm => qtwebengine5-5.15.2-4.mga9.src.rpm

Small update, if I reply to a received message I can see most of the message text in the "reply" new window.

This is a workaround, but I was able to get the text rendered correctly in Falkon by launching it with:

falkon --no-sandbox


I've seen the problem in these apps: Kmail, Konqueror, Amarok and Falkon. 

I noticed that in Falkon (run normally) some pages render correctly (eg. youtube.com, duckduckgo.com) while most do not render the text (eg. mageia.org).

Another workaround, I can launch Kmail with: env QTWEBENGINE_DISABLE_SANDBOX=1 kmail , now everything works as expected!

With the latest updates to Cauldron, this problem is solved for me.  I no longer require any of the above workarounds for Kmail, Falcon or Amarok.

Based on comment 16 closing as FIXED.

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