[systemsettings] [Bug 336089] Font preview - rendering problem

[Thomas Sellmaier via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336089

--- Comment #30 from Thomas Sellmaier <thomas.sellmaier at gmail.com> ---
> Here's a couple of reasons for you:

No, thats no reasons, in this context thats just fine excuses!

>  * the code is at least 6 years old, with the copyrights going back to early
> 2000s
>  * the original author is not around anymore
>  * probably nobody actually wants to dive in *thousands* lines of obscure
> code in their free time
>  * probably nobody understands it

But in context of providing good and reliable software, these excuses ARE
reasons to rewrite this piece of outdated crap. 

Thomas Lübking wrote:
>Craig, the preview seems to use its own rasterizer implementation (and there's xft in the code ;-)

>I wonder whether that's either necessary and feasible (given that Qt5 exclusively rasterizes internally now) - or one should just QPainter::drawText() down the lines (also reflecting what it will *really* look like in KDE5 applications)

This makes me think, that it wouldn be *thousands* LOC that nobody
understands.... This comment is IMHO the result of a short look on the
code.....

Dont get me wrong, I really like KDE and enjoy it in my everyeday work and i am
thankful to all of the developers spending their free time. But this issue is
just another example, why open source software often sucks. Instead of taking
bugs serious and fix them, at the latest to the next major release, the
implementation of new features seems to be first in schedule.

> > It makes Plasma look amateurish.
No, It MAKES Plasma/KDE amateurish!

Regards

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