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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Why was this feature removed?
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date:       2002-11-26 16:06:24
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On Tuesday 26 November 2002 16:33, Neil Stevens wrote:
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> On Monday November 25, 2002 11:46, Pavel Troller wrote:
> >   Now, I can display any information (i.e. web page) in almost any
> > language. Correctly tested on english, czech, russian (Cyrillic) and
> > lithuanian pages, I can see also chinese and japan pages but I cannot
> > read them :-). I can often see that if the page is displayed using a
> > particular font and some characters are not contained in it, they are
> > "borrowed" from other (similar but different) font, so it seems that Qt
> > really works as supposed.
>
> So right there, the user has no control over what fonts are used, which is
> a removal of control that existed in KDE 2.  Qt is on its own ignoring
> user choice, and picking its own fonts.  This can decrease legibility
> versus having user-selected fonts for each language.
>
> And of course, if Qt *fails* to find the fonts, then Konqueror becomes
> utterly worthless for reading some sites.  Yes, I've had it happen.

I suppose that you know that you can tweak it with qtconfig.

Have a nice day/evening/night!

> - --
> Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
> Delenda est Carthago
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