> I have recently switched to Wayland on my desktop (KDE Plasma) and > think I have noticed that text is rendered sharper under Wayland. Is > this technically possible given that Wayland is just a protocol, or > am I just imagining it? Wayland as a protocol does not change anything for FreeType. As a rule of thumb, always use screenshots to compare text rendering (opening it with GIMP and using the color picker tool helps tool).
However, there are two things that could possibly change text rendering silently: - Qt might be picking up different settings. In my experience Qt is less consistent when it comes to dealing with platform hinting preference, but again you need to look at the screenshot to confirm it. - You might have the fractional scaling enabled, which is broken in Wayland. Wayland fractional scaling works by asking applications to render at a larger, integer scaling factor (e.g. 200% when asking for 150%), and then scaling that down by the compositor. It breaks hinting and introduces even more antialiasing artifacts, so I've found it practically unusable. But since you're claiming "sharper" rendering which sounds like a improvement, I doubt this is the case. Tatsuyuki
