Re: Re: AA in KDE 2.1 potato

["Peter Seidler" <p.seidler@mail1.stofanet.dk>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Ivan E. Moore II <rkrusty@tdyc.com>
To: <debian-kde@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: Re: AA in KDE 2.1 potato


> > > The QT that is on kde.debian.org was not compiled with Xft support,
you'll
> > have
> > > to compile it yourself.
> >
> > I supppose that's still true for 2.3.0 - but why?
> > Does it matter if it's compiled with or without Xft support - except for
> > a small increase in size?
> > I guess quite a few people running KDE on potato would also install
> > XF > 4.0.2 just for the benefit of AA (and because it's not very
difficult)
>
> 1 reason.  It requires X4.  potato does not come with X4.  And as I've
said
> < ...Lots of good reasons... >

Ok, please excuse my ignorance.
I just thought that with X4 Xft would be used and I would get AA,
and with X3 Xft support would just be ignorred.
I now see that's not the case.

Thanks for the explanation.

--
        Peter Seidler
        - who's now (presumably) going to break his stable Debian by
          trying to build QT from sources.

> Ivan
>