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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KFontCombo speed
From:       Rik Hemsley <rik () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-07-25 23:53:06
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#if Martijn Klingens
> On Wednesday 25 July 2001 13:27, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > > The thing I noticed is the first opening takes quite some extra time, my
> > > pointer actually freezes some seconds.
> > >
> > > I think rendering the first 10 would do the trick, though I am wondering
> > > why the first took so long, is it because a font list is read, and that
> > > takes so long? (even on my P3/900)
> >
> > No such problem here (P3/650).
> 
> Here neither on a Celeron 450... The CPU is clearly not the bottleneck. Could 
> it be Xft vs. "old" font handling? I'm using Xft, the other people without 
> problems as well? Then we could disable the previews in the combo if Xft is 
> not supported, although many people probably won't like that either...

It could be that Xft is faster. I'm not using it. My resolution is high
compared to my screen size, so I can't even tell when it's switched on
:}

Rik

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