That seems to be unrelated to the font boldness issue I see in Qt5. Just another artefact of the font rewrite in Qt5 introducing issues.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Mark Gaiser <mark...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:11 PM, René J.V. <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday October 21 2014 05:45:51 Vadim Peretokin wrote: > > > >> It's not a bug, it's a feature! That is what I was told. Apparently Qt4 > was > >> getting the font boldness wrong and they fixed it in Qt5. Not sure if > user > > > > Yes, it does. Under OS X. Not under Linux, where Qt4 gives me perfect > light, regular, semi-bold and bold. With Infinality Ultimate installed, of > course ;) > > > >> experience was ever factored into the decision. > > > > Eh? There's a contradictio in terminis there. Font rendering quality is > all user experience, so either you fix it (and quality issues disappear) or > you break it completely (and quality disappears) ... > > > >> > >> Search Google for "Qt5 font rendering", you will find that lots of other > >> people have already ran into this. > > > > With Digia trying to convince them that they're wrong and just have to > live with fugly fonts as X11's first attempts at using TrueType fonts (i..e > way worse that handcrafted bitmap fonts)? > > I didn't really look into this, but "something" seems to be fixed in > the font rendering department for Qt 5.4.0: > https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-27106 >
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