[Interest] Qt5 and (lack of!) font rendering quality (Linux/X11)

[Vadim Peretokin]

That seems to be unrelated to the font boldness issue I see in Qt5. Just
another artefact of the font rewrite in Qt5 introducing issues.

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Mark Gaiser <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:11 PM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday October 21 2014 05:45:51 Vadim Peretokin wrote:
> >
> >> It's not a bug, it's a feature! That is what I was told. Apparently Qt4
> was
> >> getting the font boldness wrong and they fixed it in Qt5. Not sure if
> user
> >
> > Yes, it does. Under OS X. Not under Linux, where Qt4 gives me perfect
> light, regular, semi-bold and bold. With Infinality Ultimate installed, of
> course ;)
> >
> >> experience was ever factored into the decision.
> >
> > Eh? There's a contradictio in terminis there. Font rendering quality is
> all user experience, so either you fix it (and quality issues disappear) or
> you break it completely (and quality disappears) ...
> >
> >>
> >> Search Google for "Qt5 font rendering", you will find that lots of other
> >> people have already ran into this.
> >
> > With Digia trying to convince them that they're wrong and just have to
> live with fugly fonts as X11's first attempts at using TrueType fonts (i..e
> way worse that handcrafted bitmap fonts)?
>
> I didn't really look into this, but "something" seems to be fixed in
> the font rendering department for Qt 5.4.0:
> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-27106
>
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