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  Trolltech Releases Qt 3.2
Qt Posted by Jim Blomo on Wednesday 23/Jul/2003, @11:05
from the smell-of-trolltech-in-the-morning dept.
The newest iteration of Qt has been released today. See the announcement on Trolltech's site. User desktop improvements include a "completely re-written, faster font rendering engine." Developer improvements include new QSplashScreen and QToolBox objects. Looks fun!

KDE developers will be pleased to hear that Qt 3.2 is available from the qt-copy CVS module. It is expected that Qt 3.2 will be required for KDE's main development branch (CVS HEAD) in the near future. It should be noted that 3.1.x versions of KDE experience some problems with Qt 3.2 and that for that reason this combination is not recommended.

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Truetype Font antialiasing
by Thomas on Wednesday 23/Jul/2003, @12:38
I am experiencing some problems with my SuSE 8.2 freetype lib as it seems it is not possible to get antialiasing to work with truetype fonts (at least it works with type 1 fonts). Anybody here who has similar problems (and possibly a solution)?
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  • Re: Truetype Font antialiasing
    by James Richard Tyrer on Wednesday 23/Jul/2003, @23:14
    Please post your support question to the: kde-linux list and we will try to help you.

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Motif migration
by Hein on Wednesday 23/Jul/2003, @14:57
So QT 3.2 will it make easiert to migrate old motif programs? Any experiences?
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KDE 3.1 with Qt 3.2
by ac on Wednesday 23/Jul/2003, @18:22
What is the nature of those problems? I thought Qt 3.x was supposed to be backwards compatible. Sounds like a serious bug.
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PS font names
by James Richard Tyrer on Wednesday 23/Jul/2003, @23:31
The important question is, does this fix the problems with font names?

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So...
by cbcbcb on Thursday 24/Jul/2003, @02:01
Are developers interested in fixing KDE 3.1.x problems with QT 3.2, or are bug reports on this not welcome?
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QSplashScreen
by autumn on Thursday 24/Jul/2003, @03:45
they add a "Splashscreen" widget? wtf? so no KDE/QT applications have had splashscreens before this NEW feature? Sounds like bloat to me.
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  • Re: QSplashScreen
    by Chakie on Thursday 24/Jul/2003, @05:06
    Well, it means that all apps don't need to roll their own splash implementation, thus reducing bloat.
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  • Re: QSplashScreen
    by fault on Thursday 24/Jul/2003, @08:12
    The fact that KDE/Qt applications had to roll their own SplashScreen widgets is evidence that TT's customers wanted a SplashScreen widget in Qt..
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  • Re: QSplashScreen
    by David Johnson on Thursday 24/Jul/2003, @11:01
    It's a trivial implementation. It doesn't cause any bloat. It is essentially a bare widget that displays a pixmap and starts a timer. At most it has 20 lines of real code.
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    • Re: QSplashScreen
      by zeroskill on Monday 28/Jul/2003, @03:51
      It's better than a timed splash screen. This new splash widget displays automatically until the application is opened. Thus, no timer. It's automatic. Now, instead of a crappy timed splash screen in 20 lines, you can have a fully auto splash screen in 3 lines.
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  • Re: QSplashScreen
    by Chris Howells on Friday 25/Jul/2003, @09:16
    It's the opposite of bloat. Before applications that wanted a splash screen had to write one from scratch. Now applications can use QSplashScreen (or KDE developers the soon to be KSplashScreen) therefore reducing code duplication.
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about that font rendering....
by and large on Thursday 24/Jul/2003, @07:08
How does this new font rendering engine fit in with freetype2, Xft, etc for X ?

Are these things complementary? mutually exclusive?

Can someone gimme a clue, please?
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  • Re: about that font rendering....
    by uga on Thursday 24/Jul/2003, @12:38
    I think it still uses freetype, Xft ... as usual... the only thing you could probably notice is that fonts are actually BIGGER while webbrowsing. Well, at least they are much bigger in the qt-copy verson I have right now.
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  • Re: about that font rendering....
    by Deciare on Friday 25/Jul/2003, @02:20
    Qt now recognises that fontconfig/Xft2 can artificially italicise fonts, so italics can now be selected for any font from font selection dialogues. :)

    ... At least I _think_ that's a new Qt feature. Not sure how long it's been there.
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Qt getting aheat of KDE
by somebody on Saturday 26/Jul/2003, @04:20
Is KDE goign to lose pace with Qt, since 3.2 was released now and KDE still has at least 5 months until 3.2 will be released and by then there wil almost be a new version of Qt. IT would really suck if KDE couldn't keep pace with Qt like in teh past where the releases were almsot simultaneous.
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  • Re: Qt getting aheat of KDE
    by Datschge on Saturday 26/Jul/2003, @08:23
    Since when and why should there be a necessity to release KDE simultaneously to a new Qt version (which doesn't even fix known problems and thus forces KDE developers to work around them in KDE libs instead)?
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