incorrect line rendering

[Matthias Hopf]

On Oct 14, 07 06:51:52 -0500, Pat Kane wrote:
> On 10/13/07, Marco <marcodefreitas at gmail.com> wrote:
>   > I have noticed that arcs and lines in certain angles are rendered
> ugly in X11.
> 
> Attached is a little Xlib program that draws both 0  and 1 width
> lines.  The 0 width lines look much better on my box with
> xorg-x11-server 1.3.0.0-22.fc8  and I810 driver.
> Some of the width 1 lines look very  ugly.

Unfortunately, >0 width lines are exactly specified in X, and the
specification is actually broken (WRT quality of lines). We cannot
change the implementation, because that would violate the specs.

This is all AFAIR.

Matthias

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