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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: CVS HEAD reminder / 3.0 feature plan / time schedule
From:       Lars Knoll <knoll () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-11-06 12:48:47
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On Tuesday 06 November 2001 11:35, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > > Umm, there is still a serious problem with QT regarding Anti Aliasing
> > > fonts, which simply won't disable the AA at all. Sure, we can compile
> > > QT-3 with Xft disabled, but the end user won't, and the packagers will
> > > compile it with - so it is IMHO a MAJOR problem with QT, so I really
> > > don't know how can we go with 1 beta unless the trolltech guys will fix
> > > this ASAP..
> >
> > What problems do you have with Xft ?
>
> There are quite a few problems with Xft. Since there's no nice free
> monospaced font out there (at least none that I'm aware of; if you have
> any, please let me know) and Xft can't handle bitmap fonts, konsole looks
> like shit if Xft can't be turned off.

Wait for 3.0.1, I think we have the right solution for it now. Both Xft and 
xlfd based fonts will be available to Qt applications, so you can choose 
yourself.

> Also, Xft is horribly slow on some graphics hardware (try running Xft with
> a good old Trident VGA card - since hardware acceleration isn't possible,
> watch the CPU load going through the roof when using antialiasing).

Even when using Xft, you can turn antialiasing of by default, and then Xft 
should be as fast as old xlfd fonts.

Lars

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