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Bug 696998 - 10 minute splash screen when new font is installed
10 minute splash screen when new font is installed
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 449848
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: General
2.8.4
Other Windows
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-03-31 20:56 UTC by Moltres_rider
Modified: 2013-04-26 07:04 UTC
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Description Moltres_rider 2013-03-31 20:56:47 UTC 
I know it says "This may take awhile", but seriously? 10 minutes for 1 new font??? I think Gimp needs a better and faster way of loading fonts!!!  NO OTHER program needs 10 minutes just to load one brand new font!!! I think Gimp needs to borrow code that all the OTHER programs use because Gimp is the ONLY program that takes 10 minutes for fonts!!!
Comment 1 Michael Schumacher 2013-03-31 21:19:10 UTC 
Yep, that's the rebuild of the fontconfig font cache. See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig for a description of this library and links to the user and developer docs.

If you have an idea how this can be improved (check out the developer docs for this), please do not hesitate to tell us.
Comment 2 Michael Schumacher 2013-04-26 07:04:59 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 449848 ***