> Just to let you know that I will *not* support anti-aliasing. You can > use it, but don't expect me to urgently follow up on bug reports > involving AA, as it causes problems such as #123264. If you report an AA > bug, I'll probably downgrade its severity and tag wontfix, because it's > too buggy.
Ok, you're the boss now (;-) but whatever you do, please don't at least disable AA *support*, leave it out of binary packages etc! It works very well at least on two computers I have tried so far and makes the desktop a *lot* more usable - provided the following is in XftConfig: # Many true type fonts are optimized for point size 9-12 # and look clearer without AA in those sizes: match any family == "*" edit antialias = true; match all size > 8 all size < 13 edit antialias = false; (See http://iki.fi/elonen/devel/konq_aa.png for a screenshot. The page title is antialiased as are the window title and small menu texts.) And bug #123264 for example (huge fonts in konsole after AA enabled) was very easily fixed by just choosing the font manually from "[popup]/font/Custom...". I don't think AA on KDE is particularily buggy and should, instead, be considered quite an important feature if we want to eventually build a desktop UI that can seriously compete with the commercial one(s). Look & feel and usability are one of the areas we are most likely to fail in and therefore requires extra attention, IMHO. - Jarno
