<table><tr><td style="">ahartmetz added a comment.
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<div class="remarkup-code-block" style="margin: 12px 0;" data-code-lang="diff" data-sigil="remarkup-code-block"><pre class="remarkup-code" style="font: 11px/15px "Menlo", "Consolas", "Monaco", monospace; padding: 12px; margin: 0; background: rgba(71, 87, 120, 0.08);"><span style="color: #000080">diff --git a/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/fontconfig/qfontconfigdatabase.cpp b/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/fontconfig/qfontconfigdatabase.cpp</span>
<span style="color: #000080">index e28b40c240..05bd01f158 100644</span>
<span style="color: #a00000">--- a/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/fontconfig/qfontconfigdatabase.cpp</span>
<span style="color: #00a000">+++ b/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/fontconfig/qfontconfigdatabase.cpp</span>
<span style="color: #800080">@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ QFontEngine::HintStyle defaultHintStyleFromMatch(QFont::HintingPreference hintin</span>
     }
 
     if (QHighDpiScaling::isActive())
<span style="color: #a00000">-        return QFontEngine::HintNone;</span>
<span style="color: #00a000">+        return QFontEngine::HintNone; // NNNNOOOOOOO</span>
 
     int hint_style = 0;
     if (FcPatternGetInteger (match, FC_HINT_STYLE, 0, &hint_style) == FcResultMatch) {
<span style="color: #800080">@@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ QFont QFontconfigDatabase::defaultFont() const</span>
 void QFontconfigDatabase::setupFontEngine(QFontEngineFT *engine, const QFontDef &fontDef) const
 {
     bool antialias = !(fontDef.styleStrategy & QFont::NoAntialias);
<span style="color: #a00000">-    bool forcedAntialiasSetting = !antialias || QHighDpiScaling::isActive();</span>
<span style="color: #00a000">+    bool forcedAntialiasSetting = !antialias || QHighDpiScaling::isActive(); // NNNNOOOOOOO</span>
 
     const QPlatformServices *services = QGuiApplicationPrivate::platformIntegration()->services();
     bool useXftConf = false;</pre></div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R120 Plasma Workspace</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D26185">https://phabricator.kde.org/D26185</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>ahartmetz, Plasma, apol, davidedmundson<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>asturmlechner, dfaure, davidedmundson, anthonyfieroni, plasma-devel, LeGast00n, The-Feren-OS-Dev, jraleigh, zachus, fbampaloukas, GB_2, ragreen, ZrenBot, ngraham, alexeymin, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, ahiemstra, mart<br /></div>