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    Question Missing text in menus etc.

    Using QT4 Designer 4.4.3 on Linux fc10.x86_64

    In the Qt Designer window, the menus all have blank text. The menus are there and look to be sized properly but I just can not see the text. Note: this is in the designer itself and not my project. Same goes for any widgets I place on a form/dialog. For example if I put a textlabel on the form, it's properly spaced but I see no text. When the application is run, the text displays fine, I just can't see it in the designer. Seems like the designer is just not able to display text in most places (perhaps a font issue). I do see text on the window title bars, column headers in the object inspector, property editor, etc. Right-click popup menus also blank.

    Any ideas. TIA.

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    Default Re: Missing text in menus etc.

    Does it happen for other Qt-bundled applications such as Qt Assistant and Qt Linguist as well?

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    Default Re: Missing text in menus etc.

    Quote Originally Posted by wysota View Post
    Does it happen for other Qt-bundled applications such as Qt Assistant and Qt Linguist as well?
    Nope. Only the designer.

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    Default Re: Missing text in menus etc.

    Try deleting its settings file in ~/.config/Trolltech/Designer.conf

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    Default Re: Missing text in menus etc.

    Quote Originally Posted by wysota View Post
    Try deleting its settings file in ~/.config/Trolltech/Designer.conf
    Still get the same thing.

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    Default Re: Missing text in menus etc.

    What font do you have setup in the qtconfig application? Furthermore is your Qt built from sources or taken as a binary package for your distribution?

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    Default Re: Missing text in menus etc.

    Quote Originally Posted by wysota View Post
    What font do you have setup in the qtconfig application? Furthermore is your Qt built from sources or taken as a binary package for your distribution?
    I have the defaults, San Serif, Normal, size 10. There are no font substitutions listed. I tried changing the font but it had no affect. I also tried changing the GUI Style and the style would change, but still no menus until I tried the Oxygen style. Seems, only Oxygen will display the menu items. All other GUI styles fail to properly display the text on the menus.

    It is the binary package.

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    Default Re: Missing text in menus etc.

    Is the binary package from the same version of the distribution as your other rpms or did you download it separately from the internet?

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    Quote Originally Posted by wysota View Post
    Is the binary package from the same version of the distribution as your other rpms or did you download it separately from the internet?
    It is from the same version (Fedora 10) and all packages are up to date.

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    Default Re: Missing text in menus etc.

    In that case I'd suggest contacting the package maintainer and reporting the problem there. If the problem only concerns Qt Designer and not other Qt tools, then it's very unlikely it is caused by Qt or KDE itself, more probably some font(config) misconfiguration.

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