Comment 34 for bug 1722508

Hello jbicha,

I am not running Kubuntu but I am running KDE Plasma 5 and Qt apps on several OpenSUSE installations. On my Ubuntu installation I am running Gnome Shell. As an FYI, I maintain a freetype2 repository with subpixel rendering enabled for OpenSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed. Like most of the other Linux desktop OS versions, OpenSUSE does NOT enable subpixel rendering with the FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING variable and I provide that option with my repo. In one of my repos I use the Ubuntu freetype2 diff file for implementing the subpixel rendering patches. Several months ago, I noticed that the font rendering changed when I upgraded my font repositories to freetype-2.7.1 and the difference in the rendering was caused by the introduction of the TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING parameter in ftoptions.h. Its not so much that the font rendering is better or worse but that it is different than before with freetype-2.6.X. In any event, at that time, I discovered that the font rendering would be made exactly the same as before by not defining TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING in freetype2 versions 2.7 and later.