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

[Maik Beckmann]

2009/3/5 Sebastian Krause <sebastian at realpath.org>:
> andrew.m.goth at l-3com.com wrote:
>> Sebastian Krause wrote:
>>> 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'm guessing you have horizontal BGR ordering.
>
> No, it's vertical RGB ordering with very common subpixel smoothing
> and full hinting. More or less the default used for LCD screens on
> Linux system.
>

This is an very annoying Qt4 issue and I don't get why it isn't fixed
(there must be a fix, since Qt3 and gtk apps are just fine).   Adding
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>vrgb</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
to ~/.fonts.config fixed it for me.

Best,
 -- Maik