and I've tried to raise it with the original backend authors (Lars Knoll and Jiang Jiang) over on Freenode #qt-labs.
It would be really good to get feedback. The change is intended to be transparent to applications (no visible ABI/API) change, but it would still be good to know this viewed as a step along the path to properly fixing's Qt X11/Fontconfig backend.
For those following along, Saviq has raised this with #kubuntu-devel:
http:// irclogs. ubuntu. com/2012/ 09/24/% 23kubuntu- devel.html# t20:05
and I've tried to raise it with the original backend authors (Lars Knoll and Jiang Jiang) over on Freenode #qt-labs.
It would be really good to get feedback. The change is intended to be transparent to applications (no visible ABI/API) change, but it would still be good to know this viewed as a step along the path to properly fixing's Qt X11/Fontconfig backend.