[Devel] Re: [Render] Re: AA fonts in KDE temporary fix

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > * When the KDE font dialog does not find any fixed fonts but is
> >   asked to only show these, it shows only 'fixed' in the list. I
> >   made a patch to et it show all fonts as a last resort instead of
> >   just 'fixed'.
> 
> That's because FreeType doesn't correctly identify monspaced fonts,
> it's apparantly hard.  I changed the Xft library to stop reporting
> the monospacing value as it wasn't usually right.

Well, FreeType relies on the status of the isFixedPitch flag of the
`post' table (in TTFs) which is not reliable unfortunately.  But you
can override that, adding more logic.

I believe we'll change that soon, probably by ignoring this flag
completely, only reporting its value.


    Werner