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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Either fix konsole or DO NOT SUPPORT AA!
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-03-30 12:25:21
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On Tuesday 27 March 2001 21:17, Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] wrote:
> This is starting to worry me, when using AA you can't use konsole (without 
> starting it with something like "sh -c "QT_XFT=0 ; konsole""), so what does 
> this mean for KDE?  Well, first off all the new distributions coming out now 
> will have AA support by default for all supported harware, this means that 
> new users that tries linux for the first time will install (without knowing 
> anything about AA), start up (with kde :) and when they start up the konsole 
> (which they will sooner or later) they will have a lot of problems using this.
> 
> First of, WHY doesn't konsole work with AA?  what makes this application so 
> special that the fonts look like <insert bad word here> in it?  and why can't 
> anybody seem to get around to fix this?

Get the fix for fixed fonts. Konsole works well with AA.
I personnally disable AA for konsole because it makes scrolling & repainting 
a tiny bit slower, but other than that it works fine. See the post from Lars
with a patch for Qt and one for X - or simply update either X or Qt.

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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