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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 3.0 - the last steps
From:       Allan Sandfeld Jensen <snowwolf () one2one-networks ! com>
Date:       2002-03-21 22:46:25
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On Thursday 21 March 2002 22:59, Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Thursday 21 March 2002 20:35, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > > 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?
>
It think you might be right. Khtml was about the only thing that looked ok 
before the fix. It was especially the tree-views you had a screensshot of 
before, that was really broken, they look perfect now. 
This screenshot however looks too to compact, but the left one has sligthly 
too wide spacing, but better that the middle current one.
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