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Font rendering samples

I have previously mainly used 10.2 and the font rendering
has been consistent and excellent (except for 
OpenOffice and the PDF readers). However with 11.0 we
now have KDE3, KDE4 and GNOME differences (in addition
to OpenOffice and the PDF readers).

See the attached sample which shows rendering of a selection
of apps and was obtained with a subpixel enabled truetype
and a rebuild of libqt4 (so that it actually  uses subpixel
rendering). Not visible in this sample is the linespacing
which also seems to be different between KDE4 apps and
everything else (about 1 or 2 additional pixels per line
depending on app).

While what is considered nice rendering is obviously 
depended on personal taste and the used monitors (and
therefore should be easily adjustable by the user) I
consider the inconsistent rendering with identical
settings a bug.

Personally I strongly prefer the KDE3/firefox2 rendering
(which seems to be like 10.2) on three out of the four TFTs I
regularly use. KDE4 looks too gray and GNOME/Firefox3 too
thin. The PDF readers and OpenOffice rendering is too fuzzy.