Qt4/KDE4 software under 10.14

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Thursday October 11 2018 01:37:51 Richard L. Hamilton wrote:

>https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/751
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>I have no idea if it's really the same underlying cause to the KDE4 graphics issues vs MacVim, but they both are not handling display updating correctly from the looks of it.

It does sound likely, and one has to hope Apple didn't introduce a whole bunch of incompatibilities. It could be interesting to see if Qt4 has a similar option to avoid CoreText rendering.
FWIW, Qt5 does since 5.7 or so; it can use Freetype+FontConfig. I patched that code a bit so it becomes possible to set this as the default text renderer without tweaking each and every command line, and have been using it all the time. FreeType+Infinality does a better rendering job, and text now looks the same on Mac and under X11 (in Qt5 apps).

BTW, has this been reported to them (and did they respond with anything other than "works as intended" or "please install the latest release")?

R.