KDE apps and freetype-freeworld's bytecode interpreter

[Vassili Zaitsev]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Yes, in fact I did a clean reinstall of F12 having first removed 
*everything* from the home directory, just to make sure, but the problem 
recurred.