[Qt-interest] [Linux] Ugly anti-aliasing (still) in Qt 4.5

[Constantin Makshin]

To be honest, I haven't found any significant differences in font  
rendering on your screenshot.

On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:13:34 +0300, Sebastian Krause  
<sebastian at realpath.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Even though I actually like Qt, the ugly font hinting in Qt 4.x has
> made me mostly avoid Qt applications on Linux during the last two
> years. It used to be a known bug and I was by far not the only one
> suffering from it:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448555
>
> A blog post from the Trolltech Labs last September made me hope to
> finally get a solution to this problem:
>
> http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/09/01/subpixel-antialiasing-on-x11/
>
> Now that Qt 4.5 is released I installed it (the Debian packages from
> experimental) to see if things have improved. But to my
> disappointment it still looks the same as before. Here is a
> screenshot to show what I mean:
>
> http://realpath.org/screenshots/qt.png
>
> In the foreground Qt with rather blurry fonts and in the background
> Gtk, demonstrating how it is supposed to look like. I tried severeal
> different howtos to edit the ~/fonts.conf, e.g. these two:
>
> http://johan.kiviniemi.name/blag/ubuntu-fonts/
> http://martin.ankerl.com/2009/01/22/beautiful-font-hinting-in-ubuntu-810/
>
> But no matter what I change, Qt4 always draws the fonts in exactly
> the same blurry way. Is there anything that I've missed and need to
> change to fix Qt?
>
> Thanks,
> Sebastian

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Constantin "Dinosaur" Makshin