[Okular-devel] Antialias configuration

[Pino Toscano]

Hi Florian,

> > for Okular in KDE 4.1 I unified the handling of the graphics/text
> > antialias 
> > settings, and now backens can just query the Document for them.
> > Now, what is missing is the configuration, as right now the only way is
> > to manually change the configuration file.
> > The configuration would be:
> > - Text antialias: Enabled/Disabled [there would be also UseKDESettings,
> > but it's not done yet)
> > - Graphics antialias: Enabled/Disabled
> >
> > The questions are basically two:
> > a) should be the UI for these be done?
>
> That depends on what these settings have to offer as a benefit for the
> user. Under which circumstances would anyone want to change them? Is it
> about increasing speed (by turning antialiasing off) to make displaying
> documents faster? Or is it more about increasing the quality of the
> displayed text/graphics (by turning it on)?

Activating antialiasing on text and graphics makes them smooth and not jagged, 
so a bit more pleasure to see.
Disadvantages of that are that it takes slighty longer to render (depends on 
the graphics, but usually is not so noticeable), but could blur a bit.
For example, there's http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107671.

> What's the default? 

The default is both active by default, at the moment. That's what most user 
would expect, I think.

-- 
Pino Toscano
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