On Tuesday 21. April 2015 10:33:50 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Tuesday April 21 2015 06:32:47 Heikkinen Jani wrote: > >If you aren't fixing critical bug you should use '5.5' branch for that. > >'5.4' is for possible 5.4.3 and not for any nice-to-have fixes, sorry. > This is actually more than just a nice-to-have fix. It affects anyone doing > any kind of serious work with fonts, and not just on OS X. So this is more > than just a nice-to-have fix, unless of course you think it's fine for Qt > to remain stuck in the 80s or so as far as font handling is concerned. > There are lots of typefaces (combinations of font family, weight, style) > that cannot be reloaded for the standard ways to represent them in settings > files, and I'm not even sure that the approach Qt follows allows for 100% > reliable function.
I don't know anything about that particular patch, but this does not look like a candidate for a stable branch. If people have been living in the 80s for that long, they can wait until the next minor release. If this is not a regression against Qt4, then it is a new feature, and 5.5 or even dev should be a better candidate. Especially because font rendering is so delicate, and fixes somewhere in this area tends to break applications that relied on the previous behaviour. (When suddenly a line is a pixel larger, the rendering of a whole screen can be disastrous.) But this does sound like a nice change you are doing. -- Olivier Woboq - Qt services and support - http://woboq.com - http://code.woboq.org _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development