Icons not showing properly

[ghost]

This happens if compiled from source, and also in the Appimages (both Qt5 and Qt6). Running on KDE Plasma 5.27.6, Xorg, Arch Linux.

[zjeffer]

Happens to me too, also on Arch Linux, running Hyprland.

I haven't found a cause yet. The appimage works fine if you want to use that instead.

Edit: oops, i just saw the appimages don't work for you. Very strange.

[nuttyartist]

Is there any way I can reproduce this in Fedore with Gnome or PopOS? If not, is it possible with Kubuntu?

[ghost]

I just tested with Fedora and Kubuntu, both don't have the problem.

[guihkx]

I'm on also on Arch and the icons show up just fine here.

Can you attach a text file here with the output of:

$ QT_LOGGING_RULES='qt.text.font.*=true' notes

[zjeffer]

notes-fonts.log

[guihkx]

In your logs, every time the app requests for the Font Awesome 6 Free Solid font (which we bundle), for some reason Qt returns Font Awesome 6 Free:

qt.text.font.match: QFontDatabasePrivate::match
  request:
    family: Font Awesome 6 Free Solid [-- any --], script: 2
    styleName: -- any --
    weight: 400, style: 0
    stretch: 0
    pixelSize: 17
    pitch: *
qt.text.font.match:   REMARK: looking for best foundry for family 'Font Awesome 6 Free' [1]
qt.text.font.match:           looking for matching style in foundry 'AWSM' 2
qt.text.font.match:           best style has distance 0x0
qt.text.font.match:           found smoothly scalable font (17 pixels)
qt.text.font.match:           found a match: score 0 best score so far ffffffff

On my logs, we see this instead:

qt.text.font.match: QFontDatabasePrivate::match
  request:
    family: Font Awesome 6 Free Solid [-- any --], script: 2
    styleName: -- any --
    weight: 400, style: 0
    stretch: 0
    pixelSize: 17
    pitch: *
qt.text.font.match:   REMARK: looking for best foundry for family 'Font Awesome 6 Free Solid' [1]
qt.text.font.match:           looking for matching style in foundry 'AWSM' 1
qt.text.font.match:           best style has distance 0x32
qt.text.font.match:           found smoothly scalable font (17 pixels)
qt.text.font.match:           found a match: score 2000 best score so far ffffffff

I'm not exactly sure what causes that, but at the top of your logs we see this, which might be an indication:

qt.text.font.db: Adding font: familyName "Font Awesome 6 Free" stylename "Regular" weight 400 style QFont::StyleNormal pixelSize 0 antialiased true fixed false
qt.text.font.db: Registering alias "Font Awesome 6 Free Regular" to family "Font Awesome 6 Free"

[nuttyartist]

Very good research! Maybe Font Awesome 6 Free Regular clashes with Font Awesome 6 Free Solid? It's hard for me to see why tho. Maybe we can just change the name of the fonts?

EDIT: on my macOS they already have different names tho:

[zjeffer]

The problem seems to stem from the otf-font-awesome and ttf-font-awesome packages. Uninstalling both of them fixes the issue @samegit3

otf-font-awesome is an optional dependency for Waybar. Would be nice if we could find a way to force specific fonts in Notes, without having to uninstall these packages.

[ghost]

I had ttf-font-awesome, uninstalling it seems to fix the problem.