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Post #120,717
by pwhysall
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10/10/03 3:16:46 AM
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New Antialiasing
Not a function of QT. It's the Xft renderer. Any apps can use it, and do; The WindowMaker toolkit (WingS or something?) is now Xft enabled, for example.

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Post #120,723
by deSitter
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10/10/03 4:32:51 AM
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New Not true
The algorithm for painting characters derives from freetype, not Xft, which is X-server level font handling and makes no assumptions about the actual details of antialiasing of specific font types (in old X, fonts were displayed as on or off pixels, period - no shading possible). Qt interfaces directly to Xft, while GTK has a separate layer, Pango, for font handling. Because they both end up running through freetype via Xft, they both make nice looking fonts, but the use of it in Qt is thoroughgoing and properly low level, while typically GTK has a zillion complex interrelated APIs, like Windows, because it just seems to grow according to demand and not according to design, also like Windows.
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     Of possible interest: GNOME gripes (linux-elitists) - (kmself) - (14) - Oct. 8, 2003, 11:30:22 PM EDT
         Could you please... - (folkert) - (3) - Oct. 8, 2003, 09:17:35 PM EDT
             Re: Could you please... - (kmself) - (2) - Oct. 8, 2003, 11:31:06 PM EDT
                 Note to Self: Greg Folkert == Parroted Jeff and Jason on L-E -NT - (folkert) - (1) - Oct. 10, 2003, 09:55:42 AM EDT
                     Re: Note to Self: Greg Folkert == Parroted Jeff and Jason on - (kmself) - Oct. 10, 2003, 11:25:23 AM EDT
         evil laughter shakes walls - muahahahahha - (deSitter) - (2) - Oct. 8, 2003, 09:40:29 PM EDT
             What? you dont like that kluge cluster of honkin bobo's? - (boxley) - (1) - Oct. 8, 2003, 09:51:21 PM EDT
                 I've hated GNOME since version 1/10^10 - (deSitter) - Oct. 8, 2003, 09:58:59 PM EDT
         Goes beyond GNOME - (admin) - (6) - Oct. 9, 2003, 10:27:14 AM EDT
             While I agree... - (kmself) - (5) - Oct. 9, 2003, 09:17:56 PM EDT
                 Re: While I agree... - (deSitter) - (4) - Oct. 9, 2003, 09:37:05 PM EDT
                     KDE apps... - (kmself) - (3) - Oct. 10, 2003, 12:41:36 AM EDT
                         Re: KDE apps... - (deSitter) - (2) - Oct. 10, 2003, 01:13:26 AM EDT
                             Antialiasing - (pwhysall) - (1) - Oct. 10, 2003, 03:16:46 AM EDT
                                 Not true - (deSitter) - Oct. 10, 2003, 04:32:51 AM EDT

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