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RE: [SLE] Anti-Aliasing: How do I do it?
- From: Lenz Grimmer <grimmer@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 16:40:56 +0100 (CET)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0103021639310.3085-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Avi Schwartz wrote:
> While XF 4.0.2 supports AA, the applications have to be modified in order
> to take advantage of it, it is not automatic. Since KDE is QT based, by
> installing a version of QT that supports these X11 extensions, all KDE
> applications start displaying AA fonts.
In fact, all applications based on Qt should use AA fonts. According to
Keith, it will take the GNOME people a little while longer to get full AA
support, because they have to modify every single application in addition
to GTK, since font handling is not as transparent to the application as
with Qt.
LenZ
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> While XF 4.0.2 supports AA, the applications have to be modified in order
> to take advantage of it, it is not automatic. Since KDE is QT based, by
> installing a version of QT that supports these X11 extensions, all KDE
> applications start displaying AA fonts.
In fact, all applications based on Qt should use AA fonts. According to
Keith, it will take the GNOME people a little while longer to get full AA
support, because they have to modify every single application in addition
to GTK, since font handling is not as transparent to the application as
with Qt.
LenZ
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Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH
mailto:grimmer@xxxxxxx Schanzaeckerstr. 10
http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany
I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood for 30 years.
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