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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 3.0 - the last steps
From:       Marc Mutz <Marc.Mutz () uni-bielefeld ! de>
Date:       2002-03-21 21:59:42
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On Thursday 21 March 2002 20:35, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
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> > What about the "dense text" problem? Anyone else seeing this after
> > the last qt-copy update?
>
> This was a bug fix in qt 3.0.3, previously linespacing was horribly
> broken unless you used Xft. It is funny to see all those people
> wanting the broken behaviour back. How did you ever live with kde2
> (or kde3 with xft)? The new linespacing is within 10% of what it was
> in kde2, whereas the broken one was 4x-5x larger.

Care to have a look at the attached screenshot? The leftmost text is 
from qt-copy's qt-assistant showing part of qt-linguist's manual. But 
it could've well been cut from a screenshot of KMail's composer which 
also uses the same spacing.
The middle one is from current KMail's reader.
The rightmost one is from KMail in 2.x. Sorry that it's smaller text 
(it's from a display with less dpi).

You can clearly see that the middle one looks butt ugly compared to both 
the outer ones. It's hardly readable. It has almost the same line 
spacing as the right one, but the right one is a smaller font size :-o

Maybe khtml contains a workaround for the too large linespacing with 
prior Qt versions and that hasn't been removed yet?

> > Screenshot#1 shows a Konq in the background, running on the "old"
> > qt-copy and the folder list of KMail running the current qt-copy
> > (note the tiny space between listviewitems)
>
> Looks horrible and is impossible to read contiuonally because of a
> abnomous linespacing.
>
> > Screenshot#2 shows an example text in KMail's reader. It's quite
> > hard to read what with the small \baselineskip.
>
> Looks perfect ;-)

You must have been watching too many DVDs with anamorphic distortion 
recently ;-)

Marc

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Marc Mutz <mutz@kde.org>
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