a332f3fabc disabled resolving all fonts
on the system for every font lookup, which was a significant startup
time improvement. But it also caused a regression: When a font has
an alias which shares the name of a proper font, then this would
not be resolved correctly.
This is fairly typical on Windows/GDI due to backwards-compatibility.
Instead of being collected under a shared typographical family, fonts
are disambiguated by adding the style name to the family name. The
proper typographical name is still available, but this is not
enumerated by the system.
So "Segoe UI" for instance, will be available as "Segoe UI",
"Segoe UI Light", "Segoe UI Bold" etc.
When we populate family aliases, we register that "Segoe UI Light"
is actually "Segoe UI" with Light weight, and prior to
a332f3fabc this would be done implicitly.
But after the optimization, we would only populate family aliases once
we stumbled over a font request for a non-existent font. For "Segoe UI",
we would simply return the regular weight font as the best imperfect
match.
The fix is to populate font family aliases not only when the family is
non-existent, but when the match is imperfect, e.g. if we are asking
for a Light weight font and only finding a regular one. User code can
still avoid this somewhat expensive operation by using the full
family names on Windows.
This also requires a fix to a test. When removeApplicationFont() is
called, we invalidate the font database, so it will be reset to a state
that does not contain the family aliases. Therefore we cannot guarantee
that it is identical to what it was before the test started, since this
depends on what has happened previously in the application.
[ChangeLog][QtGui][Text] Fixed an issue where some font styles and weights
would not be selectable. This was especially noticeable on Windows.
Pick-to: 5.15 6.1 6.2
Fixes: QTBUG-94835
Change-Id: I892855edd1c8e3d3734aace396f6000d897d2ec4
Reviewed-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <tor.arne.vestbo@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Qt CI Bot <qt_ci_bot@qt-project.org>
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