KDE4 ignores font hinting settings [solved: qt bug, fixed in 4.5]

eWoud · 2008-10-04 21:13:54

Full hinting enabled in Gnome and KDE:

Slight hinting enabled in Gnome and KDE:

KDE seems to ignore the hinting settings. It's present in ~/.fonts.conf, also Qt3 apps work fine.

I would like to use slight hinting everywhere, but KDE4 defaults to full hinting anyway

Google wasn't very helpful on this issue, and I found no mention of it in the KDE bugzilla.

Last edited by eWoud (2008-10-05 10:34:21)

darzephyr · 2008-10-05 00:46:27

bender02 · 2008-10-05 06:28:12

Check: Menu -> System Settings -> Appearance -> Fonts -> "Use antialiasing..."

brebs · 2008-10-05 07:15:13

eWoud · 2008-10-05 10:33:51

@darzephyr

Thanks for the link. It appears to be a Qt bug, fixed in the upcoming 4.5. I'm marking this as solved.

@bender02

Slight hinting is enabled in the kde 'systemsettings', as well as in 'gnome-appearance-properties'.

@brebs

Thats a patch for cairo, gtk+ apps work fine. I tried it out anyway, but without effect.

brebs · 2008-10-09 15:58:12

Edit2: Oops, ignore my patch - it doesn't work. Qt4 doesn't even use cairo.

Last edited by brebs (2008-10-10 02:24:04)

gtklocker · 2010-05-09 17:44:06

Got the same problem! Please help! !!!

Arch Linux