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

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Constantin Makshin wrote:

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

Actually, speaking as an amateur type-designer, if anything, the Qt 
font rendering is _better_, less spindly, less Windows-like :-).

> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Constantin "Dinosaur" Makshin
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