Fonts rendering in titlebars with KDecoration2

[Christoph Feck]

On Friday 17 June 2016 11:28:32 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Trying out kdecoration-viewer confirmed something I already noticed
> when I ran KWin5 from a parallel prefix, replacing my usual KWin4.
> The font in the window titlebars is the same, but looks different.

Is your decoration Qt Quick/QML based? If yes, see 
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2012/08/08/native-looking-text-in-qml-2/

> I have the Infinality Freetype and FontConfig patches installed,
> so any form or font rendering that uses some other implementation
> pops out a bit more saliently (because visibly worse) than
> compared to a system where those patches aren't used.
> 
> All other text rendering examples I've seen from my Qt5 install
> look as they should, so this really appears to be specific to
> window titlebars. What's different here?

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Christoph Feck