Bug#448555: libqt4-core: fonts are not hinted, therefore blurry and ugly
Tomáš Janoušek wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 07:14:50PM +0200, Sebastian Krause wrote:
>> Hmm, I don't know anymore when and why it was fine again, but once I cleaned
>> up my whole Qt configuration (deleted ~/.qt* and ~/.config/Trolltech*).
>> Since then I've never seen those blurry fonts anymore.
>
> Nope, going into KDE (version 3) setting dialog and enabling hinting makes it
> use hinting but disables subpixel rendering completely (and can't be enabled,
> dunno why). Removing ~/.fonts.conf and xrdb settings it generated, qt3 looks
> fine again and qt4 looks fucked again.
I guess in the end you have to wait for Qt 4.5, that should fix the
problem:
http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/09/01/subpixel-antialiasing-on-x11/
Sebastian
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