Bug#448555: libqt4-core: fonts are not hinted, therefore blurry and ugly
2008/9/4 Sebastian Krause <sebastian@realpath.org>:
> Tomáš Janoušek wrote:
>> 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/
Now that Qt 4.5 was released I tried to find out a bit more. This
thread might be interesting concerning this bug:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.general/11401
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