impossible to select "regular" font style for labels

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Author Name: Nyall Dawson (@nyalldawson)
Original Redmine Issue: 9393
Affected QGIS version: master
Redmine category:labelling
Assignee: Larry Shaffer

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Here's a strange one... Using Ubuntu, it's impossible to select the "Regular" variant of the "Ubuntu" font in label properties. I can select Regular variants for other fonts (eg Arial), and other variants of the "Ubuntu" font, but everytime I select regular for ubuntu it just changes the dropdown box back to the previous setting.

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Author Name: Mathieu Pellerin - nIRV (Mathieu Pellerin - nIRV)

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I confirm problem on my system too.

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Author Name: Borys Jurgiel (@borysiasty)

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Is it the default font in Ubuntu? If so I'd set the bug priority to High.

Btw. The same problem with DejaVu Sans on Debian. No way to select the regular variant (called Book here). Other DejaVu fonts work ok.

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Author Name: Nyall Dawson (@nyalldawson)

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Borys Jurgiel wrote:

Is it the default font in Ubuntu? If so I'd set the bug priority to High.

Yes - it's the default label font under Ubuntu. This isn't a regression, it happens with 2.0 as well.

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• priority_id was changed from Normal to High

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Author Name: Larry Shaffer (Larry Shaffer)

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Confirmed here on Mac, too. That is fixed, but I found a related issue with font 'named styles' and am working on a solution for it (for Qt < 4.8) before committing the fix. Still have to test on Windows, too.

https://github.com/dakcarto/QGIS/commits/fontutils-fix

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• assigned_to_id was configured as Larry Shaffer
• fixed_version_id was configured as Future Release - High Priority
• status_id was changed from Open to In Progress

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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• subject was changed from Linux - impossible to select "regular" font style for labels to impossible to select "regular" font style for labels

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Author Name: Larry Shaffer (Larry Shaffer)

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Fixed in changeset "90aa18a5c674cf816ddae1488d9d4c8d67b87ff8".

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• status_id was changed from In Progress to Closed

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Author Name: Larry Shaffer (Larry Shaffer)

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While ostensibly fixes the issue, there is still a flaw with QFontDatabase.styleString() returning generic style names.

Reopen issue if needed.