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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-desktop] Re: KDE4.5.4 kate terminus
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:02:48
Message-Id: pan.2011.02.21.07.30.52@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] KDE4.5.4 kate terminus by Florian Philipp
1 Florian Philipp posted on Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:44:53 +0100 as excerpted:
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3 > Hmm, yes, in gedit the font looks okay. I guess this really is a KDE, Qt
4 > or terminus bug. Please report it.
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6 Very possibly a hinting issue... does it change when you change kde's font
7 hinting settings? (There's quite some history involved there, including
8 former patents, just expired AFAIK, that prevented freedomware use, at
9 least where the patents applied, for quite some time. There were various
10 workarounds, some of which are likely still in place, causing different
11 behavior in different cases.)
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13 > By the way: Please don't top-post. Put your responses below the message
14 > you quote. It makes reading long threads easier.
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16 Strongly agreed. =:^)
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20 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
21 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman