[Bug 190848]

[Bugs-freedesktop]

qual="all" can actually already be used to test that a value is not set
because it always returns true when there are no values to test.  i.e.
All zero values match.

For the rgba case, overriding a value of "unknown" seems quite
reasonable.

<match target="font">
  <test name="rgba" qual="all"><const>unknown</const></test>
  <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>none</const></edit>
</match>

The match will apply when rgba is set to "unknown" or when rgba is not
set.

For some other properties there is no unknown value, and so using
qual="all" gets more obscure because we have to compare with a value
that will never match an appropriately set value.  e.g.

<match target="font">
  <test name="hintstyle" qual="all"><int>-1</int></test>
  <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintmedium</const></edit>
</match>

I found that making these "set when not already set" rules work appropriately with Qt3 required an additional hack.  Qt3 was calling FcFontMatch (and thus FcFontRenderPrepare) before XftFontMatch (which calls FcFontMatch again after
XftDefaultSubstitute).  Xft screen options had not been applied in the
first FcFontRenderPrepare (before XftFontMatch), and so the rules were matching and setting values that would take precedence over Xft screen options.  This situation was detectable through missing pixelsize as FcDefaultSubstitute had not been called before the first FcFontRenderPrepare.  I haven't looked at Qt4.

This test matches only when pixelsize is set (-1.0 is considered an
inappropriate value).

  <test name="pixelsize" target="pattern" compare="not_eq">
    <double>-1.0</double>
  </test>

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190848

Title:
  font in terminal does not resemble font in preview

Status in Fontconfig - Font Configuration Library:
  Confirmed
Status in GNOME Terminal:
  Fix Released
Status in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “vte” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

  When choosing a font for your Terminal profile, the preview in the
  font selector does not resemble the result in the Terminal window at
  all.  Please reference the attached screenshot.

  The expected behavior is that the Terminal and the font selector
  preview look identical.  Otherwise the selector is rather useless.

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