Bug#448555: fixed in qt4-x11 4.5.0-2

[Armin Berres <trigger@space-based.de>]

On Tue, 17 Mar 09 10:26, Tomáš Janoušek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:21:11AM +0000, Fathi Boudra wrote:
> >      - 0278-X11-Use-legacy-LCD-filtering-if-specified-in-font-c.diff
> >        If Freetype is built without subpixel rendering, we should use
> >        the Qt 3 intrapixel filter instead of the bitmap convolution
> >        when the Legacy LCD filter is chosen. (Closes: #448555)
> 
> It uses the old hinting mechanism and looks somewhat better, but subpixel
> rendering is off. This is still worse than qt3.
> 
> http://store.lisk.in/tmp/2009-03-17-102510_1280x800_scrot.png
> (left - qt3, right - qt4)

It is even a bit worse here. The general appearence of the font is nice,
but the fringing is not. See
http://alioth.debian.org/~trigger-guest/color-fringing-with-qt4.5-2.png
and
http://alioth.debian.org/~trigger-guest/color-fringing2-with-qt4.5-2.png

Compared to what we have now I like blurred fonts we had with -1 much
better.

Greetings,
Armin

PS: No need to CC me. Just in case anyone wonders...