Re: [ft] Only GTK/Gnome benefits from recompiled freetype.

[Clemens Eisserer]

I seems KDE took the hinting settings from KDE whereas all other GTK
applications used the hinting style configured in the GNOME panel I
played arround some time before.

Thanks for your effort, lg Clemens

2006/12/24, Masatake YAMATO <address@hidden>:
> Hi,
>
> > First of all sorry - I know this is not the right place to ask this
> > but different kde forums I did not get any help.
> >
> > I recompiled freetype with the patented stuff turned on (of course
> > just for fun to see the difference, not for using it!) and GTK and
> > GNOME immediatly benefited from the enhanement. Fonts now look sharper
> > and are almost exclusivly 1px wide. I use the DeJaVu-Fonts that come
> > with FC6.
> >
> > However KDE and FireFox still show those blurry glyphs, although I
> > selected the same font. I attached a screenshot how text is rendered
> > using the same font in kwrite (up) and gedit (bottom).
> >
> > Are KDE/FireFox linking freetype statically? Any ideas whats wrong?
> >
>
> I'm using FC5 and it seems that firefox links libfreetyp.so dynamically.
>
> address@hidden/Mail/freetype/freetype% ldd /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.8/firefox-bin
> ldd /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.8/firefox-bin
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00d4b000)
>         libmozjs.so => not found
>         libxpcom.so => not found
>         libxpcom_core.so => not found
>         libplds4.so => /usr/lib/libplds4.so (0x00b5c000)
>         libplc4.so => /usr/lib/libplc4.so (0x00bf7000)
>         libnspr4.so => /usr/lib/libnspr4.so (0x00d68000)
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00630000)
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00110000)
>         libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x001c1000)
>         libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x00515000)
>         libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x004ec000)
>         libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0x005a1000)
>         libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0x00e63000)
>         libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x00114000)
>         libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0x005c6000)
>         libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x00cd6000)
>         libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00152000)
>         libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00644000)
>         libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x006d6000)
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00156000)
>         libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x02e8d000)
>         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00987000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x007d3000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00c2c000)
>         libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x0017b000)
>         libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00d17000)
>         libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x001b8000)
>         libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0x005c1000)
>         libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x00dec000)
>         libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x005bb000)
>         libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x00508000)
>         libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0x00df6000)
>         libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x00dad000)
>         libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00906000)
>         libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00b21000)
>         libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x00993000)
>         libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00cc9000)
>         libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00cce000)
>         libexpat.so.0 => /lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x009bb000)
> address@hidden/Mail/freetype/freetype%