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Bug 110798 - Startup is very slow when lots of fonts are installed
Startup is very slow when lots of fonts are installed
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: General
1.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: 2.0
Assigned To: Manish Singh
Manish Singh
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-04-14 23:25 UTC by Vesa Halttunen
Modified: 2003-05-02 05:52 UTC
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Description Vesa Halttunen 2003-04-14 23:25:15 UTC 
GIMP 1.3.14 takes a lot of time to start up. The splash screen reads
"Looking for data files - Fonts" for 20 seconds on my 1,1ghz system. I
assume that this has something to do with the number of fonts installed.
fc-list | wc -l gives 2534. This didn't happen with GIMP 1.3.13. It also
happens every time I run GIMP.
Comment 1 Sven Neumann 2003-04-15 10:28:08 UTC 
We already have code to speed this up. Will most probably be included
with the next release.
Comment 2 Manish Singh 2003-05-02 05:52:10 UTC 
2003-05-01  Manish Singh  <yosh@gimp.org>
                                                                     
          
        * app/text/gimpfontlist.c: Query fontconfig directly for the font
        list, avoiding scanning the internal fontconfig list over and over
        again. There are differences in the font list that the old and new
        code produce however. The new code will generate descriptions for
        more fonts, and some of the styles will be different. Also, pango
        font description strings aren't specific enough for all cases, so
        a font name may appear more than once in the list. I'm not sure
        how to solve this best, but this code is Good Enough (TM) for now.