From kde-devel  Thu Mar 14 07:40:23 2002
From: Christer Kaivo-oja <whizkid () linux ! nu>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 07:40:23 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Antialiasing weirdness
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=101609174121918

On Wednesday 13 March 2002 21.58, George Staikos wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 March 2002 15:48, Pavel Troller wrote:
> >   I just tried to update XFree CVS to their HEAD (versioned 4.2.99.1)
> > and I don't have AA at all! I see "Initializing the built-in extensio=
n
> > RENDER" like normally in the Xserver log, I don't see any errors in
> > .xsession-errors, but no AA!
> >   And KDE looks wrong - there is a big spacing between lines. I never=
 saw
> > it before, now I know how ugly it is :-).
> >   I simply moved my X directory out and returned the old one (with pl=
ain
> > 4.2.0 - I backed it up first) so I have AA back.
> >   Does anybody know the reason why it doesn't work ?
>
>   Apparently the Xft library was completely rewritten/redesigned, at le=
ast
> according to someone else who tried to get qt-copy to build against XF8=
6
> Head and couldn't.

That someone would be me... :)
I did manage to compile qt against the xft2 library after extensive voodo=
o in=20
several files (typecasting to char** all over the place and commenting ou=
t=20
the entire qtaddons_x11.c file). But still no antialias. qt designer does=
=20
link against libXft now, but well...
Anyway, I've given up on trying to get AA to work, and am considering goi=
ng=20
"back" to 4.2 when I get the time.

  -- Christer
 
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