diff --git a/Status.15x b/Status.15x
index 5a43837dd9..c84ff2b384 100644
--- a/Status.15x
+++ b/Status.15x
@@ -191,8 +191,6 @@ LAYOUT
 
 PAINTING & PERFORMANCE
 
-* Open de_Intro.lyx => The footnote text in the title section exceeds the footnote frame
-
 * Open de_UserGuide.lyx; go to the end of the document; click into the footnote (with the mouse -
   this is important for the test case); add a character into the note 
   => the complete footnote is expanded but only the current line is repainted
@@ -495,3 +493,7 @@ CREDITS:
 * It is ridiculous that you have to call configure with --with-frontend=qt4.
   The existance of config/qt.m4 does not make much sense either.
   The first one is FIXED, the second WONTFIX (JMarc 07-12-2006)
+
+* Open de_Intro.lyx => The footnote text in the title section exceeds the
+  footnote frame
+  FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-09). This was due to wrong metrics for small caps.
diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiFontMetrics.C b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiFontMetrics.C
index 744ccca803..b905356901 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiFontMetrics.C
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiFontMetrics.C
@@ -181,6 +181,9 @@ void GuiFontMetrics::fillMetricsCache(char_type c) const
 
 int GuiFontMetrics::width(char_type c) const
 {
+	if (smallcaps_shape_)
+		return smallcapsWidth(ucs4_to_qchar(c));
+
 	if (!width_cache_.contains(c)) {
 		width_cache_.insert(c, metrics_.width(ucs4_to_qchar(c)));
 	}