KDE apps and freetype-freeworld's bytecode interpreter

[Kevin Kofler]

Vassili Zaitsev wrote:
> The curious thing is, in the case of Gtk applications such as the GIMP,
> Firefox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey and GNOME MPlayer, the fully-hinted MS
> fonts are displayed correctly, in all their sharp, bytecode-interpreted
> grandeur whereas in KDE applications the same fonts just look ragged,
> much as if the BCI had been left uncompiled.

Did you restart your session after installing freetype-freeworld? KDE apps 
are often run though the "kdeinit4 hack" which basically lets a kdeinit4 
executable fork and load the app as a shared library to reduce loading time, 
but this means they won't pick up the changed freetype until kdeinit4 is 
restarted.

        Kevin Kofler