On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Sonam Chauhan wrote:
> I have no idea how to get this working (I've got X 4.0.2/KDE 2.0.1 but no AA)
> The following seems to suggest that , for KDE users, it may be as simple as a new
> version of QT:
> http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/981746971/981837995/981865603/index_html
>
> Is this accurate?
Mostly. See, the problem with getting anti-aliased text in X has been that
the X protocol only uses 1-bit bitmaps when dealing with text. So it
wasn't simply a matter of putting an anti-aliasing font rasterizer in the
X server.
>From my understanding, the Render extension provides an anti-aliasing
font rasterizer (among other things). Being an extension, it's not a
simple drop-in. Applications and libraries have to use its functions
instead of the core X font functions.
Now, with so much Linux/Unix desktop stuff being done in GTK+ (Gnome) and
QT (KDE), modifications simply have to be made to them. Bingo - 90%
of your desktop is now anti-aliased. Unless an app handles its own text
rendering (never done any GUI programming), it will "automatically" get
anti-aliased text.
Anyway, that's my understanding :P
hope this helps
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