M G Berberich wrote:
So no filter is applied by libfreetype and Qt should honor this and _not_ _blur_ _glyphs_. This not only makes fonts ugly on low resolution devices but also make the desktop inconsistent, because Qt3, KDE3 and GTK-Applications will look fine while Qt4-Applications will look “different”. In my opinion a toolkit should not mess with libfreetypes glyph-rendering.
I have to agree. I don't want Qt4 to fiddle around with the font display and I want to have a consistent look between Qt and GTK by *default* without having to edit my ~/.fonts.conf (because for anyone who has problems with ugly Qt fonts it will take *ages* to find out how to solve it). It's true that FreeSans and FreeSerif have color fringes with GTK here, but my solution is simply not to use them because I prefer that over having blurry DejaVu fonts.
In the end I don't care how it is done, but as the ultimate goal I would like to have sharp and consistent fonts between GTK and Qt by default on Debian without having to adjust anything.