Bug 407826 - freetype subpixel hinting should be detected at runtime
Summary: freetype subpixel hinting should be detected at runtime
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 378801
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: KDE3 (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: i686 openSUSE 11.0
: P3 - Medium : Normal (vote)
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Reported: 2008-07-10 05:45 UTC by Anshul Jain
Modified: 2008-07-15 12:53 UTC (History)
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Screenshot of QT3 and QT4 apps (261.50 KB, image/png)
2008-07-14 12:22 UTC, Anshul Jain
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Description Anshul Jain 2008-07-10 05:45:37 UTC
The font rendering for QT4 apps on the KDE3 variant of Opensuse 11.0 is very poor. I've installed the subpixel enabled patches and it renders the QT3 applications very well. However, the QT4 apps (Yast) looks very very jagged and even after tweaking the settings through qtconf and selecting Tahoma fonts, it is definetly not rendered even correctly.

There is a bug report on Trolltech which says that Qt4 dosen't look for the subpixel patches at runtime...rather at build time and this is slated to be fixed for Qt 4.5. I have the Qt4.5 repo enabled to automatically update once the fix is released for Opensuse 11.0. Has this bug been fixed...or is there a workaround?

-Anshul
Comment 1 Will Stephenson 2008-07-11 15:16:28 UTC
Please attach a screenshot.
Comment 2 Mike Fabian 2008-07-11 17:19:43 UTC
> There is a bug report on Trolltech which says that Qt4 dosen't look
> for the subpixel patches at runtime...rather at build time and this is
> slated to be fixed for Qt 4.5.

Yes, see also bug #378801.

Comment 3 Anshul Jain 2008-07-14 12:22:31 UTC
Created attachment 227610 [details]
Screenshot of QT3 and QT4 apps
Comment 4 Anshul Jain 2008-07-14 12:23:54 UTC
Attached is a screenshot of my system with Qt3 apps perfectly subpixeled and Qt4 (Yast) dosen't pick up the rendering.

-Anshul 
Comment 5 Mike Fabian 2008-07-15 12:53:21 UTC
Yes, this is really a duplicate of bug #378801.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 378801 ***