Re: Query with AA on Opera and Red Hat 8.0

Jack Denman <[email protected]> writes:

> It does not work at all. XMAG says it doesn't and the appearance says it
> doesn't. 

My guess would be that the makers of Opera have done something
to avoid linking to the system copy of Qt, and therefore are
not taking advantage of the system facilities for anti-aliased
fonts.

You can check this by, once opera is running, looking at
 
 /proc/<pid of opera>/maps

And see if it includes:

 /usr/lib/qt-3.0.5/lib/libqt.so.3

Or whether it points to some other copy of Qt.

The other possibility is that they are bypassing Qt and handling
fonts themselves; if this is the case, then they may not have
yet ported their code to take advantage of the current version
of Xft shipped with Red Hat 8, and may be falling back to 
older code.

You're best bet would be to contact Opera and ask them.

Regards,
                                        Owen