Bug#448555: fonts are not hinted, therefore blurry and ugly

2009-03-16 Thread Samuel Rødal
Fathi Boudra wrote: Hi, This will be fixed in Qt 4.5.1 (ref http://www.qtsoftware.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?method=entry&id=248387). In conclusion I hope you do not include the proposed patch in Debian or in qt-copy :) thanks for your reply. Qt snapshots aren't updated since

Bug#448555: fonts are not hinted, therefore blurry and ugly

2009-03-16 Thread Fathi Boudra
Hi, > This will be fixed in Qt 4.5.1 (ref > http://www.qtsoftware.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?method=entry&id=248387). > In conclusion I hope you do not include the proposed patch in Debian or in > qt-copy :) thanks for your reply. Qt snapshots aren't updated since 2-3 weeks. Is it p

Bug#448555: fonts are not hinted, therefore blurry and ugly

2009-03-16 Thread Samuel Rødal
Hello, the proposed patch is not ideal, as it ignores the Fontconfig LCD filter settings and produces quite severe color fringes for many fonts. First, this is not a hinting issue, but an LCD filtering issue. For Qt to honor the Fontconfig filtering settings in 4.5.0 it needed Freetype to be

Bug#448555: fonts are not hinted, therefore blurry and ugly

2009-03-16 Thread Fathi BOUDRA
hi, thanks for the patch. Added to qt-copy patches and will be in next Debian Qt packages upload. cheers, Fathi