[kde-solaris] Xsun vs. XFree86

[Devendra Deshpande]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:45:52 -0700 Benjamin S Carrell
<carrell@eng.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> I have KDE 3.0.5/Qt 3.0.6 installed on my Solaris 8 based system.  I
> have installed some fonts such as Arial and Verdana, the problem is,
> they are rendered as ugly as I have ever seen.
> 
> I am considering compiling XFree86 and giving that a try.  Mainly for
> Xft and Xrender, which Xsun doesn't support.  Has anyone used XFree86
> on their Solaris (ultrasparc) machine?  I would like to know what your
> impression is using it on Solaris.  Any advice are comments are
> welcome.

How about trying the Xft2 libraries (http://fontconfig.org/)?

>From the page:

  The current version of Xft (2.0) provides a client-side font API for X
  applications. It uses Fontconfig to select fonts and the X protocol
  for rendering them. When available, Xft uses the Render extension to
  accelerate text drawing. When Render is not available, Xft uses the
  core protocol to draw client-side glyphs. This provides completely
  compatible support of client-side fonts for all X servers. 

If you pull in the latest Qt (3.1.1, not sure if qt-copy has been
updated), then it already has support for Xft2. Fromt the changelog
http://www.trolltech.com/developer/changes/3.1.1.htm:
  Detection of Xft2 support has been added.

Whatever you try, I'd be very interested to how it went :-)

Thanks,
Devendra