KDE4 ignores font hinting settings [solved: qt bug, fixed in 4.5]

Full hinting enabled in Gnome and KDE:
Slight hinting enabled in Gnome and KDE:
KDE seems to ignore the hinting settings. It's present in ~/.fonts.conf, also Qt3 apps work fine.
I would like to use slight hinting everywhere, but KDE4 defaults to full hinting anyway
Google wasn't very helpful on this issue, and I found no mention of it in the KDE bugzilla.
Last edited by eWoud (2008-10-05 10:34:21)

Edit2: Oops, ignore my patch - it doesn't work. Qt4 doesn't even use cairo.
Last edited by brebs (2008-10-10 02:24:04)

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