Hello Martin! On Wednesday 20 November 2002 11:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I have a little question that has been haunting me for the past few | days: | | Summary: | KDE3.0.4 (recompiled) lacks antialiasing support when compiled against | current CVS (19 nov 2002) of XFree86.
This happens not only with XFree86 CVS, but with XFree86-4.2.1 (with FontConfig enabled) as well. $ rpm -q XFree86 libXft2 fontconfig freetype2 XFree86-4.2.1-12mdk libXft2-2.1-2mdk fontconfig-2.1-1mdk freetype2-2.1.3-2mdk As you speak about KDE 3.0.4 - I guess you have Qt-3.0.5, right? $ rpm -q libqt3 libqt3-3.0.5-2mdk $ rpm -q kdelibs3 kdebase3 kdelibs3-3.1-0.beta2.1mdk kdebase3-3.1-0.beta2.1mdk I upgraded from XF-4.2.0-6mdk (LM 8.2) to 4.2.1-12mdk (MDK Cooker), and anti-aliasing (not only for fonts but for icons with alpha channle as well) immediately disappeared. I think *easy fix* would be upgrade to KDE 3.1 and Qt-3.1. I guess you need to wait just a few days till KDE 3.1 release, as tarballs for KDE 3.1 *final* were packaged few days ago. It would be interesting to know, though, *why* latest FontConfig (2.1) and Xfree86 4.2.x (compiled with FontConfig support) do not provide backward compatibility with XFree86-4.2.0 (which was not using FontConfig) I am cc'ing to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, hope someone from TrollTech can clarify wether it's Qt or XFree86/FC bugs. | | What I found out so far: | | My X env supports RENDER & | AA works with my currect X (CVS) compilation (xterm -fa "helvetica" | shows AA'd xterm). | | I suspect I need working xft headers in order to have anti-aliased fonts | in KDE? | I assume the QT3 packages of debian are compiled with -xft? You need Qt-3.1.0 to get support for FontConfig, AFAIK. Which version does Debian ship? | | ./configure decides to give up on xft because Xft.h refers to a file | that can't be found. (But continues). Do you have FontConfig installed? I have, and most of my fonts are missisng in KDE (3.1beta2, Qt-3.0.5) Font Select dialog. bUt fonts are recognized by FontConfig, and "visible" via fc-list: $ fc-list "Times New Roman" Times New Roman:style=Bold Italic Times New Roman:style=Bold Times New Roman:style=Italic Times New Roman:style=Regular $ fc-list "Nimbus Sans L" Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Italic Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Condensed Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Italic Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Condensed Italic Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Condensed Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Condensed Italic So, I believe problem is caused by incompatibility between Qt-3.0.5 and XFree86-4.2.1 (with FontConfig support) I am not sure, though *what* should be fixed here. | | Xft.h refers to freetype.h, which is available, not in the freetype dir | but freetype2/freetype. | | Pointing to freetype2/freetype/freetype.h in Xft.h doesn't work, | ./configure complains about not finding other files (turns off xft and | continues). | Moving freetype one level above (next to freetype2) results in a working | ./configure and included xft support. Compiling however fails on | inconsistencies in multiple declarations of a function and the lack of | others (originating from the found and accepted Xft.h). | | I read that freetype is being turned upsidedown in this release of | XFree86 and things might not compile as you expect them. So I noticed. | | Question: should I stop and get some sleep since it will not work (soon) | or is there a quick 'workaround' (like the one with the freetype dir I | tried before)? | Will Xft.h headers eventually work in 4.3.0, or is this a transition to | a whole new approach of Xft? I see a Xft and Xft1 dirs in the CVS | structure at the moment namely. | | Anyway, if someone could enlighten me a bit here, I'd be pleased... | | | Regards, | Martin van Es | | _______________________________________________ | Fonts mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts -- Vadim Plessky SVG Icons * BlueSphere Icons 0.3.0 released http://svgicons.sourceforge.net My KDE page http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/ _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
